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recognizance

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Recognizance

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Recognizability

The quality or condition of being recognizable

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Recognizable

Capable of being recognized

Irrecognizable

Not recognizable unrecognizable

Recognisance

1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 38), s. 1; and as to the mode of entering into recognizance, see Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, s. 24; see also ss. 19-23. For forms of recognizance, see the

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

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

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.

Recognition adnullanda per vim et duritiem facta

a recognisance, which the recognisor suggests was acknowledged by force and duress; that if it so appear, the recognizance may be annulled, Reg. Brev. 183.

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