recusation

Borrowed from Latin recusatio, recusationis. Compare French récusation.

recusation (countable and uncountable, plural recusations)

1. (obsolete) refusal
2. (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

• recuse

• Carnoustie, cautioners, nectarious, noctuaries, reauctions