 | Law - 1791 - 568 pages
...of payment of the principal, intereft, and cofls, may be pleaded in iausfaction. i.Bi.Com.34. 1 8. A RECOGNIZANCE is an obligation of record, which a man enters into before fome court of record or magistrate duly amhorifed, with a condition to do fome particular aft ; as... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 676 pages
...the bond be forfeited and a fuit commenced thereon, {hall be a full fatisfadtion and difcharge. 2. A recognizance is an obligation of record, which a man. enters into before fome court of record or magiftrate duly authorized y, with condition to do fome particular act ; as... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...bond be forfeited and a suit commenced thereon, shall be a full satisfaction and discharge (16). 2. A recognizance is an obligation of record, which a...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. It is in most respects... | |
 | 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...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.... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pages
...port ; 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...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.... | |
 | Massachusetts, William Charles White - Law - 1810 - 208 pages
...that a recovery had in this action may be pleaded in bar of any other claim or demand. TITLE CXXIV. RECOGNIZANCE. A. RECOGNIZANCE is an obligation of...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
...testator himself, if he had lived, could not have brought a writ of error, so neither can his executors'. A recognizance is an obligation of record, which a...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.... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, John Henry Thomas - Land tenure - 1818 - 752 pages
...to the presumption of satisfaction of a bond from length of time, see ante, vol. 1. p. 13. n. (E). \ recognizance is an obligation of record, which a man enters into before soiue court of record, or magistrate duly authorized, (Bro. Ala. lit. Recognizance, 24), with condition... | |
 | 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...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... | |
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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. 
