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.