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Recognizance

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized with condition to do some particular act as to appear at the same or some other court to keep the peace or pay a debt A recognizance differs from a bond being witnessed by the record only and not by the partys seal

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