Cognitio
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from cognoscere, to know, to understand, to hear, to acknowl^ge, to confess.] In old English law. The acknowledgment of a fine; the certificate of such acknowledgment. Potestas recipiendi cognitiones; the power of taking acknowledgments. lieg, Orig. 168 b.
De rogniiionibu8 certificare; to certify (give a certificate) of acknowledgments.
Id. ibid. Cognizance, or jurisdiction. Hujusmodi cauBCB cognitio ad forum speciat ecdesiastirum; the cognizance of this kind of cause belongs to the ecclesiastical tribunal. Bract. fol.
302 b.
Artie. Cleri, c.
6.