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recognizance

recognizance [Anglo-French recognisance reconisance, literally, recognition, from Old French reconoisance, from reconoistre to recognize, from Latin recognoscere] 1 :

Recognizance

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

Recognizability

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Recognizable

Capable of being recognized

Irrecognizable

Not recognizable unrecognizable

Recognisance

Recognisance, an acknowledgement of a debt owing to the Crown, with a condition to be void if the recognizor shall do some particular act, as if he, or the party for whom he is surety, shall appear

Traversing Indictment

the next session, upon such terms as to bail, etc., as shall seem meet, and may respite the recognizances of the prosecutor and witnesses; the prosecutor and witnesses to be bound to attend and prosecute and give

Good behaviour, security for

for. The exercise of preventive justice, which consists in being bound with one or more sureties in a recognizance or obligation to the Crown, and taken in some Court, by some judicial officer; whereby the parties acknowledge

Estreat

Estreat, (1) the true extract, copy, or note of some original writing or record, and especially of recognizances, fines, amercements, etc., entered on the rolls of a Court to be levied by the bailiff or other

Certiorari

but a defendant could only obtain it by express leave of the court, and upon his entering into recognizances; but to prevent abuses, by the wanton and improvident application for it, the Acts 5 & 6 Wm.

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