The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion;
restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included,
as in a class, statement, rule.

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.

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.