Recuse

Quick meaning: Recuse is a verb meaning To reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.).

Meaning

To reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.).

More Meanings

1. To refuse (to do something).
2. To dismiss (an appeal).
3. (intransitive, law) Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare oneself disqualified from trying a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.

Example Sentences

The district attorney recused from the case because he used to work for the company which was the defendant.

[T]he Quenys grace may alvvayes recuſe & appell at her good pleaſure & libertie, from vvhatſoever Decree or Sentence, either interlocutorie, or definitive, ſhe vvil: […]

[N]otvvithſtanding that the ſaid Judges amply and ſufficiently declared, as vvell the ſincerity of their minds directly, juſtly to proceed vvithout favour, dread, affection, or partiality; […] yet ſhe nevertheleſs perſiſting in her former vvilfulneſs, and in her Appeal, vvhich alſo by the ſaid Judges vvas likevviſe recuſed: […]

And therfore, if ayenst this peticion any processe be made of any maner Juge spirituel or temporell, and soo the same John have wronge, thanne he provoketh and appelleth this cause directly to the rightwisness of god and to the liege lorde, ffor other juges in his matere he hath utterly suspecte, for greet wronges that he hath had, dreding to have more. He therfor hem utterly recuseth, and herto he fully him submitteth.

Word Forms

• recuses
• recusing
• recused
• recusest
• recusedst
• recuseth

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include repudiate, reject, retire, dismiss, withdraw, refute.

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