Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-CU-SA'TION
RE-CU-SA'TION, n. [L. recusatio.]
- Refusal.
- In law, the act of refining a judge, or challenging that he shall not try the cause, on account of his supposed partiality. [This practice is now obsolete.] – Blackstone.
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