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Meaning Of Exception
n.
The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion;
restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included,
as in a class, statement, rule.
n.
That which is excepted or taken out from others; a
person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as,
almost every general rule has its exceptions.
n.
An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of
an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in
the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of
time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also,
as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something
before granted.
n.
An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense;
cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.