Cognitio

In Old English Law. The acknowledgment of a fine; the certificate of such acknowledgment. Cognizance or jurisdiction. Bracton, fol. 302b. In the Roman Law. The judicial examination or hearing of a cause. Plin. Epist. vii. 33. fied person, who has taken a fine and neglects to certify it in the court of common pleas, to do so. COGNITIONIS CAUSAE (Lat.) For the purpose of ascertaining.

In Scotch practice. A name given to a judgment or decree pronounced by a court, ascertaining the amount of a debt against the estate of a deceased landed proprietor, on cause shown, or after due investigation. Bell, Diet.

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;. The ackowledgment of & fine; cognizance; jurisdiction. nition, jurisdiction. "right to try causes; corporations which to oust the jurisdiction ment of a fine, q. v. taking as servant or

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.