 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...and a suit commenced thereon, shall be a full satisfaction and discharge (16). 2. A recognizance is an obligation of record, which a man enters into before...assizes, to keep the peace, to pay a debt, or the like. It is in most respects like another bond : the difference being chiefly this : that the bond is the... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pages
...and that account, taken from the log-board, is called the dead-reckoning. RECOGNIZANCE, in law, is an obligation of record, which a man enters into before...record, or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to the game particular act ; a« to appear at the assizes or quarter sessions, to keep the peace, &c.... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 684 pages
...and that account, taken from the log-board, is called the dead reckoning. RECOGNIZANCE, in law, is an obligation of record, which a man enters into before...record, or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to the same particular act ; as to appear at the assizes or quai ier sessions, to keep the peace, &c.... | |
 | Massachusetts, William Charles White - Law - 1810 - 208 pages
...action may be pleaded in bar of any other claim or demand. TITLE CXXIV. RECOGNIZANCE. A. RECOGNIZANCE is an obligation of record, which a man enters into before...authorized, with condition to do some particular act. A recognizance may be either public or private. A public recognizance is where the act to be performed... | |
 | Thomas Potts - Law - 1815 - 836 pages
...which has been done before. See Deed. RECOGNISANCE, is an obligation of record, which a man enter« into before some court of record, or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to the same particular act ; as to appear at the a» sizes or quarter sessions, to keep the peace, Ac.... | |
 | William Tidd - Civil procedure - 1817 - 718 pages
...had lived, could not have brought a writ of error, so neither can his executors'. A recognizance is an obligation of record, which a man enters into before some court of record, or magistrate duly auI Co. Lit. ac>ob Comb. 455. Skin, and see a Bos. & Pul. 357. (b). 681. SC 2 Ld. Raym. 1048. a Wils.... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 910 pages
...(recognisance, Fr,) 1. Acknowledgment of person or thing. 2. Badge (Shakspeare). RECOGNIZANCE, in law, is an obligation of record, which a man enters into before...record, or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to the same particular act ; as to appear at the assizes or quarter-sessions, to keep the peace, &c. If... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 378 pages
...account, taken from the logboard, is called the dead-reckoning. RECOGNISANCE, in law, is an obli. ration of record, which a man enters into before some court...record, or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to the same 'particular act; as to appear at the assizes or quarter sessions, to keep the peace, Ktc.... | |
 | William Sheppard - Conveyancing - 1820 - 1178 pages
...came to be improved into a common assurance. See Hickforfs cine, Winch. Rep. 83. (2) A recognizance is an obligation of record, which a man enters into before...condition to do some particular act ; as to appear at the assises, to keep the peace, to pay a debt, or the like. It is in most respect* like another bond :... | |
 | William Tidd - Civil procedure - 1821 - 814 pages
...judgment in aa action of debt against an heir, on the obligation of his ancestor. A recognizance is an obligation of record, which a man enters into before...authorized', with condition to do some particular act: And it is either at common law, or by statute. A recognizance at common law is either to the king,... | |
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A recognizance is an obligation of record, which a man enters into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized)', with condition to do some particular act; as to appear at the assizes, to keep the peace, to pay a debt, or the like. 
