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Definition of 'recognizance'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) recognizance
Law.

2. recognizance
a bond or obligation of record entered into before a court of record or a magistrate, usu. binding a person to appear for trial or forfeit a specified amount of money.

3. recognizance
the sum pledged as surety.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME reconissaunce, recognisance < OF reconuissance)

Definition of 'recognizance'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) recognizance, recognisance
(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'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) recognizance
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

2. (noun) recognizance
the verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize

3. (noun) recognizance
a token; a symbol; a pledge; a badge

4. (noun) recognizance
acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; recognition

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