cognovit

American  

[kog-noh-vit] / kɒgˈnoʊ vɪt /

noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of cognovit

1755–65; < Latin: 3rd person singular perfect of cognōscere to recognize; see cognizance

Example Sentences

Now to the superficial this seemed to be evaded by the art of the firm in “getting the cognovit out of her.”

From Bardell v. Pickwick by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington

In four days I have a cognovit expires for 200_l_.

From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Moore, Thomas

He goes on to state, however, that those who would be wiser than the Apostles write this verse as follows: "Nemo cognovit Patrem nisi Filius; nee Filium nisi Pater, et cui voluerit Filius revelare."

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard

His great charge was that they had got a cognovit, or undertaking to pay their costs out of Mrs. Bardell—their own client! 

From Bardell v. Pickwick by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington