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.

synonym: recusal.

Roget 536: negation, abnegation; denial; disavowal, disclaimer; abjuration; contradiction, contravention; recusation [Law], protest; recusancy etc. (dissent) 489; flat contradiction, emphatic contradiction, emphatic denial, dementi [Lat.].    qualification etc. 469; repudiation etc. 610; retraction etc. 607; confutation etc. 479; refusal etc. 764; prohibition etc. 761.    ... show more

law An objection grounded on the judge's relationship to one of the parties.