For the observation of which orders the bailiffs and others of that town be bound in recognisance before the said Protector and Council.
The formall recognisance or acknowledgement of the said homage.
Yet it was decreed by this award, that the said lord Egremond should be bound by recognisancein the chancerie, to keepe the peace toward the said erle and his wife, children, seruants, and tenants.
If we may judge from some of the enrolments on the Recognisance Rolls, Thomas Legh must have been a somewhat turbulent subject, and have been frequently at variance with his neighbours and friends.
They did, and the sheriff came with Major Edmiston, begged pardon of every member of the court but Judge Bryson, who was not present, and entered into recognisance to appear at next sessions.
About nine o'clock, several persons, having long applied to the sheriff without success, prevailed on him at length to give a recognisance to appear at the next court to answer for the assault and battery on Judge Bryson.
There the sheriff refused to give any recognisance for his appearance at the next court, and was therefore committed to jail.
At law an estreat is an official copy of the specification of fines or penalties (such as a forfeited recognisance for use of the bailiff or sheriff's officer in levying).
Their next step was the act of a mob, and not of a parliament; I mean the expunging of the recognisance entered at Guildhall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recognisance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
