The Collaborative International Dictionary
Declinature
Declinature \De*clin"a*ture\ (?; 135), n. The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.
Wiktionary
declinature
n. 1 The act of decline or refusing. 2 (context legal English) The legal privilege of a party, in certain circumstances, to decline the jurisdiction of a judge before whom the party's case sits. 3 (context legal English) recusal.