declinatory

1. (law, obsolete or historical) Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.Examples: "[…] 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."; "Declinatory exceptions do not tend to defeat the demand, but only to decline the jurisdiction of the judge before whom it is brought."; "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."historicalnot-comparableobsolete