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Definition of Recognizances
1. recognizance [n] - See also: recognizance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recognizances
Literary usage of Recognizances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn (1842)
"Recogni- And these recognizances and statutes standing in equal degree, ...
But amongst statutes and recognizances those which are forfeited shall be ..."
2. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"recognizances. recognizances are in form like bonds, containing an ... At the
present time where recognizances are in use, they are often required to be ..."
3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1895)
"recognizances j1 but the acknowledgment of a recognizance is a single act for which
... He is entitled to fees for taking acknowledgments of recognizances, ..."
4. English Government Finance, 1485-1558 by Frederick Charles Dietz (1921)
"CHAPTER IV OBLIGATIONS AND recognizances : THE WORK OP EMPSON AND DUDLEY Among
the entries of payments to the Treasurer of the Chamber certain miscellaneous ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The only recognizances of this kind practically enforced are those entered ...
Such recognizances are forfeited by any act tending to a breach of the peace. ..."
6. Middlesex County Records: Calendar of the Sessions Books, 1689 to 1709 by William John Hardy (1905)
"Memoranda relating to recognizances, committals, oaths, &c. pp. ... 3 Miscellaneous
memoranda as to indictments, acquittals, recognizances, &c. ..."
7. A Digest of the Law of Criminal Procedure in Indictable Offences by James Fitzjames Stephen, Herbert Stephen (1883)
"recognizances OP WITNESSES. 1 When a verdict is returned by which any person is
accused of murder or manslaughter or of being accessory to murder before the ..."
8. The Irish Jurist (1849)
"That the Speaker of the House of Commons shall ap- M'mi я fit person to he examiner
of recognizances ; and -;ich person shall hold his office during the ..."
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