Je recuse

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/6/2010 11:21 PM, Jocelyn Limpert wrote:
>RB cites a dictionary entry with "excuse oneself" to back up his point that
>it doesn't mean that -- what sense does that make, pray tell?


Perhaps a better expression of this sense than the New Oxford
American Dictionary's is the Oxford *English* dictionary's:

2.b. refl. Law (chiefly N. Amer. and S. Afr.). Of a judge, juror,
etc.: to *disqualify* oneself from adjudication on the grounds of a
possible conflict of interest. Also occas. intr.

Joel

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