recusation

See also: récusation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recusatio, recusationis. Compare French récusation.

Noun

recusation (countable and uncountable, plural recusations)

1. (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

2. (obsolete) A refusal.

Related terms

• recuse

Translations

recusal

• Catalan: recusació f
• Italian: ricusazione (it) f
• Spanish: recusación (es) f

Anagrams

• Carnoustie, cautioners, nectarious, noctuaries, reauctions