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Recusation

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In the civll law. A species of exception or plea to the jurisdiction, to the effect that the particular judge is disqualified from hearing the cause by reason of interest or prejudice. Poth. Proc. Civ lie, pt.

1, c. 2, § 5.

The challenge of jurors. Code Prac. La. arts.

499, 500.

An act, of what nature soever it may be, by which a strange heir, by deeds or words, declares he will not be heir.

Dig. 29, 2, 95.