different between partiality vs recusation

English

Etymology

From Middle French partialité, from Medieval Latin partialitas

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???i?æl?ti/, /p????æl?ti/, /p????æl?ti/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /p???i?al?ti/, /p????al?ti/, /p????al?ti/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /p???i??l?ti/, /p?????l?ti/

Noun

partiality (countable and uncountable, plural partialities)

1. Preference, bias in favor of, tendency.

   The judge's partiality towards the defendant caused him to be replaced, with someone who was apparently more neutral.

2. The quality of being partial or incomplete.

Translations

Anagrams

• patriality

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recusatio, recusationis. Compare French récusation.

Noun

recusation (countable and uncountable, plural recusations)

1. (obsolete) refusal
2. (law) The act of disqualifying a judge or jury in a specific case on the grounds of possible partiality or prejudice.
   • 1750, William Blackstone, An Essay on Collateral Consanguinity

     […] permit a man to refuse a judge, if he himself is of opinion he has any cause, without assigning what that cause is, is therefore in general very silent about what sort of consanguinity is, or is not, a good ground for recusation

Related terms

• recuse

Translations

Anagrams

• Carnoustie, cautioners, nectarious, noctuaries, reauctions