recusationEtymologyBorrowed from Latin recusatio, recusationis. Compare French récusation.nounThe act of disqualifying a judge or jury in a specific case on the grounds of possible partiality or prejudice.“[…]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”A refusal.