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Example sentences for "recognizances"

Lexicographically close words:
recognition; recognitions; recognizable; recognizably; recognizance; recognize; recognized; recognizes; recognizing; recognoistre
  1. The question of estreating the recognizances then arose.

  2. Accordingly, on behalf of the highly respectable Miss Heald, I now ask that the recognizances be forfeited.

  3. Let the recognizances be estreated," was the magisterial comment.

  4. The several traversers, however, were required to enter merely into their own recognizances in £500 each to appear for trial.

  5. Prisoners should always be released on their own recognizances where there is a reasonable expectation that they will appear.

  6. I therefore treated this man's crime as one of a very mitigated character, no harm having been done to the second woman, and released him on his own recognizances to come up for judgment if he should be called upon.

  7. If Henry thought a magnate was exercising his territorial power to the King's detriment, he confronted him with an army and forced him to bind his whole family in recognizances for large sums of money to ensure future good conduct.

  8. Henry also required recognizances from men of all classes, including clergy, captains of royal castles, and receivers of land.

  9. The petition was dismissed in consequence of the necessary recognizances not being entered into.

  10. Most of them were liberated on entering into their own recognizances to keep the peace, and a few of the worst were fined or sent to the treadmill.

  11. This course they adopted; and his lordship then discharged them, on entering into recognizances of £100 each, to keep the peace for twelve months.

  12. We enter into recognizances to appear, yet if we fail to do so an action will not in all cases lie against us, for we are excused for making default if forced to do so by a power which we cannot resist.

  13. He is also to furnish a list of articles to the treasurer, previous to the auction, under the penalty of forfeiture of recognizances he enters into at the time he is appointed to that situation.

  14. Ay, sir, we are always entering into heavy recognizances with our passions, to do fifty things we never cared for.

  15. The worthy magistrate duly committed us for trial, accepting our own recognizances in £200 each to appear at the Central Criminal Court on May 7th.

  16. Exempt by charter from serving on juries, assizes, or recognizances outside their own territory,[729] the freemen could be impleaded only in their own courts.

  17. In the same year he was given the custody of the smaller piece of the seal for recognizances of debts in the city of York.

  18. Next year he was given an annuity of twenty marks, and also the right to exercise the office of recognizances of debts by deputy, "because he stays continually in the King's service, at his side.

  19. In 35 Edward III Helmyng Leget was granted the office of keeper of the smaller piece of the seal for recognizances of debts in London, [Footnote: Cal.

  20. William Brooke, three years' imprisonment in Northallerton House of Correction, and to enter into his own recognizances of 30l.

  21. The policeman, however, who was bound over to prosecute, fulfilled his recognizances by appearing at the Central Criminal Court, and preferring the indictment.

  22. His lordship was compelled by the magistrates to enter into recognizances to appear when called upon, which he did from time to time, till at last the matter was carried to the Central Criminal Court.

  23. Hutton and Smithies eighteen months in the same place, recognizances 30l.

  24. John Smith, William Clift, and Thomas King, were discharged on entering into their own recognizances in 40l.

  25. Paul Holdsworth, three years in Northallerton House of Correction, and the same recognizances as Brooke.

  26. Thomas Drake, to be imprisoned in Beverley jail for eighteen months, and enter into his own recognizances of 30l.

  27. Harper's partnership with Lee was dissolved by the latter's death, and the fear of having his recognizances estreated seems to have prevented him from appearing at the fairs.

  28. The result was, that Harper was discharged on his own recognizances to be of good conduct, and left Westminster Hall amidst the acclamations of several hundreds of persons, whom his popularity had caused to assemble.

  29. When I heard that my recognizances had been abrogated, I acknowledge that I felt and pronounced it a finish to my triumph, but in every other respect my quitting the gaol was to me mentally but as a change of lodging.

  30. Carlile sent word back that that would not do yet, as the fine was remitted on condition that he put in his personal recognizances of L500.


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