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Definition of Recuse

1. Verb. Disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case.

2. Verb. Challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law.

Definition of Recuse

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

Definition of Recuse

1. Verb. (transitive) To refuse or reject (''a judge''); to challenge that the judge shall not try the case or is disqualified to act. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive of a judge) To refuse to act as a judge; to declare oneself disqualified to act. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recuse

1. to disqualify or challenge as judge in a particular case [v -CUSED, -CUSING, -CUSES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recuse

recurving recurviroster recurvirostral recurvities recurvity recurvous recusal recusals recusancies recusancy

recusant recusants recusation recusations recusative recuse (current term) recused recuses recusing recussion

recut recuts recutting recyclability recyclable recyclables recyclate recycle recycle bin recycle bins

Literary usage of Recuse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana by Louisiana Supreme Court (1890)
"Under the circumstances, considering that the law leaves DO discretion to the district judge, and that he can legally recuse himself only where a party to ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"I cannot, however, at all concur in his alteration of the passage in King Lear: “Our means secure us,” to “Our means recuse us.” I will certainly leave him ..."

3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"And when a judge was related, but not within the prohibited degrees, it was held that he could not recuse himself and appoint another in his stead. State ». ..."

4. A Digest of the Reported Decisions of the Superior Court of the Late by Territory of Orleans Superior court, Louisiana Court of Errors and Appeals, Louisiana Supreme Court (1861)
"A judge cannot recuse himself, on the ground that one of his relations has an ¡a- terest in ... A judge can recuse himself, only where the parties could. ..."

5. Proceedings in the House of Representatives, Fifty-eighth Congress by United States Congress. House, Charles Swayne (1912)
"Judge Swayne, learning this, caused the deed to be returned, and that while there was not a formal application to recuse himself he would try the case. ..."

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