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Quotation dates: 1557-1700+
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Declinatour, -ator, n. Also late variant: declinature. [f. Declinatour,a. So also OF. declinatoire (1381).] A formal plea or exception declining to admit the jurisdiction of a particular judge or court.(a) 1557 Acta Cur. Admir. 38.
To gif in his declinatouris and dilatour defensis in writ 1558 Ib. 75.
[The court] repellis the foirsaidis diclinatouris and decernis the said Harman to ansuer ferthir 1603 Moysie 128.
This Black vsit a declinatour of his Majesteis judgement 1603 Ib. 129.
Be the ministeris constant abyding at theare declinatour 1622-6 Bisset I. 173/23.
Proponyng of declinatouris affermis the judge 1639 Baillie I. 146.
Because the bishops, in their declinatour, had alleadged that sundrie members of the Assemblie [etc.] 1714 Stirling B. Rec. II. 133.
They unanimously adhere to the declinatour already entered be the tounes weavers in the said affaire(b) 1638 Kirkcaldy Presb. 125.
They appoynt Mr Frederik Carmichel … to attend the Assemblie, and to use declinator if need bes c1650 Spalding I. 86.
He and vtheris … chooses Arthur of Erskyne, … and Marray of Pomaisa to go in to the Counsall and to mak ane declinator aganes the bischopis 1674 Justiciary Ct. Rec. II. 299.
In sua far as he had given in a petition to them without so much as mentioning any declinator upon that ground 1687 Acts Sederunt 16.
That upon their proponing declinator thereof, the magistrats ought to desist from any procedor against them(c) 1639 Baillie I. 189.
To passe from his declinature of the Generall Assemblie a1650 Row 321.
He had given in a declinature, containing reasons why he could not acknowledge that judicatorie to be lawfull
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