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falloff

a noticeable decline in performance as a falloff in automobile sales

drop off

a noticeable decline in performance as a drop off in attendance

Indeclinable

Not declinable not varied by inflective terminations as nihil nothing in Latin is an indeclinable noun

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Declension

The act or the state of declining declination descent slope

Precedent

judgment of another Divisional Court upon the same point, has been strengthened in number, and so strengthened, has declined to follow such prior judgment. See Winyard v. Toogood, (1882) 52 LJMC 25. The House of Lords is

Degenerate

Having become worse than ones kind or ones former state having declined in worth having lost in goodness deteriorated degraded unworthy base low

jury

to be used in felony cases in the early 1200s as the use of the trial by ordeal declined. The questions put to those early juries were usually questions of fact or mixed questions of fact and

Ship-money

the county of Bucks. John Hampden, a gentleman of the county, was accordingly assessed at 20s., which he declined to pay, and proceedings were taken against him in the Exchequer. Judgment was given for the Crown, 'which

nuisance

nuisance [Anglo-French nusaunce, from Old French nuire to harm, from Latin nocēre] : something (as an act, object, or practice) that invades or interferes with another's rights or interests (as the use or enjoyment of property)...

Declinable

Capable of being declined admitting of declension or inflection as declinable parts of speech

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