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Definition of Recognizance

1. Noun. (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.

Definition of Recognizance

1. n. 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.

Definition of Recognizance

1. Noun. (legal) a form of bail; a promise made by the accused to the court that he/she will attend all required judicial proceedings and will not engage in further illegal activity or other prohibited conduct as set by the court. ¹

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Definition of Recognizance

1. cognizance [n -S] - See also: cognizance

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recognizance

Literary usage of Recognizance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"In the Instant case the scire facias gave the defendants unmistakable notice of the particular recognizance upon \vhich execution would be asked, namely, ..."

2. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters by William Hawkins, John Curwood (1824)
"97 recognizance. The king cannot take a recognizance for the keeping of the peace. 38. s. l The master of the rolls may take a recognizance of the peace by ..."

3. A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting Real Property by William Cruise, Henry Hopley White (1835)
"a memorial of such judgment, statute, or recognizance, shall be entered at the register office of that Riding. 34. By the statute 6 Ann. c. 35. s. ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (1832)
"SC The condition of a recognizance, returned, filed, and enrolled as of record, ... Where A. entered into a recognizance to pay to the king a certain sum, ..."

5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1917)
"Where a case is continued by consent w ith the understanding that the recognizance be respited, unless the parties actually appear and have it respited it ..."

6. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond, Thomas Day (1824)
"And if there be an action in BR upon a recognizance in CB the bul shall have the same rule as they would have in CB Mod. Ca. 132. ..."

7. A Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third Volumes by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1851)
"tween a. recognizance taken in court, and the declaration or ... Where the recognizance the county in which it is taken, Hou. 105. fore a judge of chambers, ..."

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