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

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cognovit

In the Oxford great Dictionary, it reads quaintly to find Mrs. Bardell’s cognovit quoted as an illustration of the legal meaning.

From Bardell v. Pickwick by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington

‘It seems they got a cognovit out of her for the amount of ’em, directly after the trial.’

From Bardell v. Pickwick by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington

On which the young author of the treatise on Demises would have something to say in his best fashion; for the cognovit might be taken to be a sort of demise. 

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

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