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

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

Et postquam poenae causam cognovit ab ipsa, 575 Destinat in thalamos per bellum vadere ponti, Altera si Gorgo veniat, non territus ira.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

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

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

We have the following spirited fragment—   "Constituit, cognovit, sensit, conlocat sese in locum   Celsum: hinc manibus rapere raudus saxeum et grave." and again—   "Heus vigiles properate, expergite,   Pectora tarda, sopore exsurgite!"

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas