Declinatory Plea

In old English law

The plea benefit of clergy, before trial or conviction. law. Tithes; tenths; or benefices, formerly afterwards made a part old English law. One Decennary; Friborg. determination of a several states in the federal constitution or mode of trial where charge, offered to refer adversary; the oath so written statement by a in a civil action; of intention: the act record, that he intends Declaration of rights: which accompanies the creation or acparty who has made a conveyed is to be held in the subject is conproperty of which he writing by which such prisoner taken before a a party prays somewould be obscure or statute: a statonly declares what is which some right is but nothing is desolemnly before witwith the rules of thing as a fact of sanctuary, or of