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recognizance

[ US /ɹɪˈkɑnəzəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. (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

How To Use recognizance In A Sentence

  • By the mid-fourteenth century, another specialized court emerged to hear, and record, public acknowledgements of property transfers, known as recognizances, including those made through testaments.
  • He was arrested for violating the terms of his recognizance.
  • Director of Public Prosecutions and that Mda had been released on his own recognisance. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Page 110 such offense by said ordinance; and no amercement, fine, penalty, forfeiture, escheat, bond, or recognizance, accruing or enuring, in whole or in part, to the State of Ordinances and constitution of the state of Alabama: with the constitution of the provisional government and of the Confederate States of America
  • A committee was at the same time appointed to manage and let to farm to the best advantage for the City a number of offices, including those of garbling, package and scavage, metage of grain, coal, salt and fruit, as well as all fines, issues, amerciaments and estreated recognisances under the greenwax. London and the Kingdom - Volume II
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  • “That will be my cousin Jeanie Deans, Mr. Archibald,” said Mrs. Glass, with a courtesy of recognisance. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • He asked that Van Fleet be released on his own recognizance. NEW YORK DEAD
  • In the meantime, thanks to the Bail Reform Act, they were freed on their own recognizance and told to return a month later for the hearing. FOOLS GOLD
  • To my surprise, she told me that she wouldn't oppose my request that Fred be released on his own recognizance.
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