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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



... them any useful hints. The defence was as follows; and any one who does not see how richly it sets off the defences of bigger boys in bigger matters has much to learn. The innocent conviction that there was answer in the latter part is delightful. Of course fine and recognizance followed. ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan
... for bail was made in due course to a Judge in Chambers, and in spite of the bad example of the magistrate, and of Mr. Justice Charles, it was granted and Wilde was set free in his own recognizance of L2,500 with two other sureties for L1,250 each. It spoke volumes for the charm and fascination of the man that people were found to undertake this onerous responsibility. Their names deserve to be recorded; one was ...
— Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris
... remain till the next Quarter Sessions, and then to be further dealt with according to law. A short private conference followed between the magistrates and Mr Adolphus, the result of which was that Mr Walker was not proceeded against, but entered into a recognizance not to permit any kind of gaming to be carried ...
— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume I (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz
... of indemnity was now brought in, to protect the Ministers against the legal consequences of their horrid abuses of power, during the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. Most of those who had been incarcerated were now released upon their own recognizance; but Mr. Benbow, of Manchester, bravely refused to enter into any recognizance, and he was liberated without it. The Messrs. Evans followed his example, and were also ...
— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 3 • Henry Hunt
... unbeloved, lived grimly, as chance ordained, and until now, had never shown more than business benevolence. It was a surprising thing to the people of Chincoteague, when the news went round that he had been over to court at Drummond-town and given his recognizance to bring up the orphan boy—whom he named Abraham Purnell—so that the county should not be at the expense of him, and he also brought out from New York, on the Eli's next trip, a Hebrew woman to be the boy's matron. ...
— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend


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


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