RECUSATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recusation mean? 

• RECUSATION (noun)
  The noun RECUSATION has 2 senses:

1. (law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves

2. (law) an objection grounded on the judge's relationship to one of the parties

  Familiarity information: RECUSATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECUSATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

recusal; recusation

Hypernyms ("recusation" is a kind of...):

disqualification (the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

recuse (disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(law) an objection grounded on the judge's relationship to one of the parties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("recusation" is a kind of...):

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)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

recuse (challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law)