Associations to the word «Recusal»

Wiktionary

RECUSAL, noun. An act of recusing. To remove oneself from a decision/judgment because of a conflict of interest.

Dictionary definition

RECUSAL, noun. (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.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne