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recuse

To refuse or reject as a judge to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause

challenge

trier of fact) [the grounds for challenging prospective jurors "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] compare recuse n 1 : a calling into question ;esp : a questioning of validity or legality : objection [when

Recusancy

The state of being recusant nonconformity

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cross-motion

motion that attempts to counter a similar motion filed by an opposing party [after the plaintiffs moved to recuse his counsel, the defendant filed a to disqualify theirs]

interest

interest [probably alteration of earlier interesse, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin, from Latin, to be between, make a difference, concern, from inter- between, among + esse to be] 1 : a right, title, claim, or share...

Five-mile Act

Five-mile Act, 35 Eliz. c. 2,whereby popish recusants, convicted for not going to church, were compelled to repair to their usual place of abode, and not

Papist

Papists, either under that title or under the title of persons professing the Popish religion, or of Popish recusants convict, were subjected, by one statute after another, to various civil and religious disabilities, the removal of which

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