Je recuse

[Ronald Butters]

perfect, ig seems to me.
On Oct 7, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> 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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