Exception On Trial

In practice

An exception taken by the counsel of a party, on the trial of a cause, to a decision made by the judge in the course of the trial, or to an opinion expressed or direction given in his charge to the jury; and usually for the purpose either of moving for a new trial, or of bringing a writ of error.

Steph. PI, 89. 2 Tidd's Pr. 862. 1 Arch, Pr, 210.

The exception is made orally, and a minute or note of it taken in writing on the trial; and it is afterwards formally entered and engrossed in the shape of a bill of exceptions. See Bill of Exceptions,