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cognovit
[ kog-noh-vit ]
noun
- Law. an acknowledgment or confession by a defendant that the plaintiff's cause, or part of it, is just, wherefore the defendant, to save expense, permits judgment to be entered without trial.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cognovit1
1755–65; < Latin: 3rd person singular perfect of cognōscere to recognize; cognizance
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Example Sentences
Quomodo miseretur pater filiorum, misertus est Dominus timentibus se: Quoniam ipse cognovit figmentum nostrum.
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His great charge was that they had got a cognovit, or undertaking to pay their costs out of Mrs. Bardell—their own client!
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The matter, as we know, was compromised with Dodson and Fogg, so there was no need to scrutinize the Cognovit.
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Now to the superficial this seemed to be evaded by the art of the firm in “getting the cognovit out of her.”
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Dodson and Fogg,” replied the man; “execution on cognovit for costs.
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