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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin recusatio, recusationis. Compare French récusation.
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recusation (countable and uncountable, plural recusations)
- (obsolete) refusal
- (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
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