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noun
Recognizance  n.  (Written also recognisance)  
1.
(Law)
(a)
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 party's seal.
(b)
The verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize. Note: Among lawyers the g in this and the related words (except recognize) is usually silent.
2.
A token; a symbol; a pledge; a badge. "That recognizance and pledge of love Which I first gave her."
3.
Acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; recognition.





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"Recognizance" Quotes from Famous Books



... think, by the sergeant's deference, who knew what it meant to have such an office as ours interfere with the affair. I called up the prosecuting attorney, who sent to Monahan's saloon, close by, and procured a release for the coachman on his own recognizance, one of many signed in blank and left there by the justice for privileged cases. The coachman was hustled out by a back door, and the ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... and openly boasted that he would expose such a mass of corruption as would make the country stare aghast. He was however so intent on collecting evidence and on discounting his contemplated triumph over his enemies that he failed to enter into the necessary recognizance until the allotted period for doing so had elapsed. The statute governing the case required that the petitioner should enter into recognizance within fourteen days from the presentation of the petition. In this case the petition was presented on the ...
— The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 • John Charles Dent
... adulescentulus miles. — VADIMONIA: 'their appointments to appear in court, the debts due to them and the debts they owe'. When the hearing of a suit had to be adjourned, the defendant was bound over either on his own recognizance merely (pure) or along with sureties (vades) to appear in court on the day appointed for the next hearing, a sum or sums of money being forfeited in case of his non-appearance. The engagement to appear was technically called vadimonium; when ...
— Cato Maior de Senectute • Marcus Tullius Cicero
... the judge. "Prisoner, stand up! You are allowed to go upon your own recognizance in the sum of two hundred and ...
— McClure's Magazine, January, 1896, Vol. VI. No. 2 • Various
... time forty men arrived in a privateer called the Royal Jamaica, who had been engaged in a course of piracy, and brought into the country treasures of Spanish gold and silver. These men were allowed to enter into recognizance for their peaceable and good behaviour for one year, with securities, till the governor should hear whether the proprietors would grant them a general indemnity. At another time a vessel was shipwrecked on the coast, the crew of which openly and boldly confessed, they ...
— An Historical Account Of The Rise And Progress Of The Colonies Of South Carolina And Georgia, Volume 1 • Alexander Hewatt
... personal engagement that he will subject himself to the jurisdiction of the court down to final judgement; the mode of making such engagement being either a promise under oath, which is called a sworn recognizance, or a bare promise, or giving of sureties, according to the defendant's rank ...
— The Institutes of Justinian • Caesar Flavius Justinian


Words linked to "Recognizance" :   recognisance, surety, jurisprudence, security, bail bond, law, bond


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