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Recognizance   /rɪkˈɑnəzəns/   Listen
Recognizance

noun
(Written also recognisance)
1.
(law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited.  Synonym: recognisance.






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"Recognizance" Quotes from Famous Books



... hurriedly to and fro. Whispered conversations were heard. The book on rules and regulations was hopefully thumbed. Hours passed. Finally the two prisoners were pompously told that they had "obstructed the traffic" on Pennsylvania Avenue, were dismissed on their own recognizance, and never ...
— Jailed for Freedom • Doris Stevens

... upon to report ourselves, we had no evidence to produce. The photographs failed to discover the owner of the knife, and to explain its interrupted inscription. Poor Mrs. Zebedee was allowed to go back to her friends, on entering into her own recognizance to appear again if called upon. Articles in the newspapers began to inquire how many more murderers would succeed in baffling the police. The authorities at the Treasury offered a reward of a hundred pounds for the necessary information. ...
— Little Novels • Wilkie Collins



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



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