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Recusation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of disqualifying a judge or jury in a specific case on the grounds of possible partiality or prejudice. countable, uncountable

    "[…]permit a man to refuse a judge, if he himself is of opinion he has any cause, without assigning what that cause is, is therefore in general very silent about what sort of consanguinity is, or is not, a good ground for recusation"

  2. 2
    (law) an objection grounded on the judge's relationship to one of the parties wordnet
  3. 3
    A refusal. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  4. 4
    (law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recusatio, recusationis. Compare French récusation.

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