In Old Practice
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An exception taken at the trial. Fleta, lib.
6, c. 55, § 8.
In Old Conveyancing. An exception in a deed or other instrument.
9 Coke, 53.
EXCEPTIO DILATORIA (Lat.) In the civil law.. A dilatory exception; called, also, "temporalis" (temporary); one which defeated the action for a time {quae ad ternpus nocet), and created delay (et temporia dilationem tribuit); such as an agreement not to sue within a certain time, as five years.
Inst. 4. 13. 10. See Dig. 44. 1. 3.
EXCEPTIO DOLI MALI (Lat.) In the civil law. An exception or plea of fraud.
Inst. 4. 13. 1. 9; Dig. 44. 4; Bracton, fol. 100b.
EXCEPTIO EJUS REI CUJUS PETITUR dissolutio nulla est. A plea of that matter the dissolution of which is the object of the action is of no effect.
Jenk. Cent. Cas, 37.