cognovit

[ kog-noh-vit ]

/ kɒgˈnoʊ vɪt /

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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Origin of cognovit

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

Examples from the Web for cognovit

“The wording of the cognovit”—one could speculate on that without seeing it.
Bardell v. Pickwick|Percy Fitzgerald
His great charge was that they had got a cognovit, or undertaking to pay their costs out of Mrs. Bardell—their own client!
Bardell v. Pickwick|Percy Fitzgerald
Now to the superficial this seemed to be evaded by the art of the firm in “getting the cognovit out of her.”
Bardell v. Pickwick|Percy Fitzgerald
Dodson and Fogg,” replied the man; “execution on cognovit for costs.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens

The matter, as we know, was compromised with Dodson and Fogg, so there was no need to scrutinize the Cognovit.
Bardell v. Pickwick|Percy Fitzgerald