recusation
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See also: récusation
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin recusatio, recusationis. Compare French récusation.
Noun
[edit]recusation (countable and uncountable, plural recusations)
- (law) The act of disqualifying a judge or jury in a specific case on the grounds of possible partiality or prejudice.
- 1750, William Blackstone, An Essay on Collateral Consanguinity:
- […] 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
- (obsolete) A refusal.
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