[…] that the prisoner should first be arraigned, and might either then claim his benefit of clergy, by way of declinatory plea, or after conviction by way of arresting judgment.
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Declinatory
//dɪˈklɪnətɹi//
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Declinatory exceptions do not tend to defeat the demand, but only to decline the jurisdiction of the judge before whom it is brought.
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That case, like the present one, involved a declinatory exception by the respondent State when it was sued for fees for legal services and for an accounting.
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