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recognizance

recognizance [Anglo-French recognisance reconisance, literally, recognition, from Old French reconoisance, from

court to keep the peace or pay a debt A recognizance differs from a bond being witnessed by the record only

The quality or condition of being recognizable

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s. 1; and as to the mode of entering into recognizance, see Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, s. 24; see also

in being bound with one or more sureties in a recognizance or obligation to the Crown, and taken in some Court,

bail, etc., as shall seem meet, and may respite the recognizances of the prosecutor and witnesses; the prosecutor and witnesses to

express leave of the court, and upon his entering into recognizances; but to prevent abuses, by the wanton and improvident application

by force and duress; that if it so appear, the recognizance may be annulled, Reg. Brev. 183.

and goods extended or taken upon the forfeiture of a recognizance. Also a writ that issued out of Chancery, directed to

of limitation for actions of debt by deed or upon recognizance is twenty years after the cause of action has accrued,

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