| NOUN | act | recusation, recusal | (law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest |
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| act | recusation | (law) an objection grounded on the judge's relationship to one of the parties |
| Meaning | (law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused / recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves. | |
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| Synonym | recusal | |
| Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
| Broader | disqualification | The act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified |
| Spanish | recusación | |
| Catalan | recusació | |
| Verbs | recuse | disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case |
| Meaning | (law) an objection grounded on the judge's relationship to one of the parties. | |
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| Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
| Broader | objection | (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality |
| Spanish | recusación | |
| Catalan | recusació | |
| Verbs | recuse | challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law |
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