declinature

Is the insurer's declinature of my claim correct?

After all, they note, it was predicated upon Mr. Lusk's "declinature."

In addition to the ecclesiastical offence of signing the declinature, he was accused of drunkenness and incontinence, and of "using of masse crucifixes in his chamber".

The minutes state that upon "examining Mr. Lusk's papers, which were almost illegibly written, it was found that they contained a 'protest' and 'declinature,' and declared the authority of this court a nullity."

The committee, to whom his case was referred, reported that "he was a young man of good behaviour, and well beloved of his parish, and guilty of nothing directly but the subscribing of the declinature".

Accordingly, where a board decline to consider an application for a new licence on the ground that there was not any attendance by the applicant or his representatives such a declinature does not bar the applicant from reapplying within two years in virtue of s.14.

He was one of the six prelates who signed the declinature addressed to the general assembly, and on this and other grounds was deposed and excommunicated (13 December) by the assembly, the same assembly which abolished Episcopacy in the Kingdom of Scotland.