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v. To disqualify or seek to disqualify from participation in a decision on grounds such as prejudice or personal involvement.

v. To refuse or reject (a judge); to declare that the judge shall not try the case or is disqualified to act.

v. To refuse to act as a judge; to declare oneself disqualified to act.

v. To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause.

verb-intransitive. To withdraw oneself from serving as a judge or other decision-maker in order to avoid a real or apparent conflict of interest; -- often used with the reflexive.

To refuse; reject; specifically, in law, to reject or challenge (a judge or juror) as disqualified to act.

n. In numismatics, a coin which, owing to the shifting of the die or dies, has been struck twice and thus bears a double impression.

v. disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case

v. challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law

"He also said that some of the explanations that he and his supporters gave for his failure to recuse from the Vanguard case in 2002 -- such as a “computer glitch” or the fact that his promise to the Committee was somehow time-limited -- were not in fact the true reasons that he failed to recuse himself from the 2002 case."

recused    recuses    recusing   

disqualify    reject   

recusancy    recusant    recusal   

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