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Webster 1913 Edition


Declinature

De-clin′a-ture

(?; 135)
,
Noun.
The act of declining or refusing;
as, the
declinature
of an office
.

Definition 2024


declinature

declinature

English

Noun

declinature (plural declinatures)

  1. The act of declining or refusing.
  2. (law) The legal privilege of a party, in certain circumstances, to decline the jurisdiction of a judge before whom the party's case sits.
  3. (law) Recusal.

Latin

Participle

dēclīnātūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of dēclīnātūrus