 | Law - 1904 - 1032 pages
...held to mean "recognizance," which is defined to be an obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate, duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, while "cognizance" means, in law, knowledge or notice, judicial knowledge or jurisdiction, an acknowledgment... | |
 | M. E. Dunlap (Counsellor at law) - Law - 1905 - 620 pages
...penalty was recoverable at law. A recognizance is au obligation of record, entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act; as, to appes-" at court, to keep the peace, etc. Anol her distinction between a recognizance and a bond is,... | |
 | Joshua Williams - Conveyancing - 1906 - 764 pages
...Precedence of specialties binding Ike heir. before some Court of record or magistrate duly authorised, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the assizes, to keep the peace, or to pay a debt(</). It is payable out of the personal estate of the debtor, in the event of his decease... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Contracts - 1907 - 868 pages
...As defined in the English books, it is "an obligation of record, which a man enters into before some court of record, or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act;"10 as, to appear at the assizes, to keep the peace, etc.11 § 146. Discharging. — A recognizance,... | |
 | Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar - Encyclopedias - 1910 - 548 pages
...Recognizance (re-kög'nl-zans), in law, an obligation of record which a man enters into before some court of record, or magistrate duly authorized, with...condition to do some particular act, as to appear and answer in criminal proceedings, to prosecute a case or an appeal, to keep the peace, etc. The recognizance... | |
 | Charles Leonard-Stuart - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 648 pages
...Recognizance, or Recognisance, in law, an obligation of record, which a man enters into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act; as, to keep the peace, to pay a debt, or the like. Recollet, or Recollect, Friars or Nnns, the name given... | |
 | Edward Sampson Thurston - Quasi contracts - 1916 - 652 pages
...— "A recognizance Is defined to be 'an obligation of record, which a man enters Into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with...act; as to appear at the assizes, to keep the peace, to pay a debt, or the like.' 2 151. Com. 341 ; 2 Tidd's Pr. 1083, Phil. Ed. 1840. It does not, like... | |
 | Appellate courts - 1917 - 736 pages
...Elackstone defines a recognizance to be "an obligation of record, which a man enters into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with...act, as to appear at the assizes, to keep the peace, to pay a debt, or the like" (2 Black. Comm. 341) ; and it is evidenced by a memorandum on the minutes,... | |
 | Law - 1915 - 224 pages
...as the statute has prescribed. A recognizance is an obligation of record, entered into before some court of record, or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act. The taking of it involves the personal appearance of the cognizors in open court, and their acknowledging... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 944 pages
...RECOGNIZANCE, or RECOGNISANCE, in law, an obligation of record, which a man enters into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act ; as, to keep the peace, to pay a debt or the like. If the condition is not performed, the party bound by the... | |
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A recognizance is an obligation of record, which a man enters into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized)', with condition to do some particular act; as to appear at the assizes, to keep the peace, to pay a debt, or the like. 
