Recognizance
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
1.
A recognition, the verdict of an assize.
2.
An acknowledgment of a past debt, made upon record, with or without sureties [or by sureties for a defendant's appearance], made to be void on the happening of a condition. It existed at common law, and by the Statutes Merchant and Staple.