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

Nunc primum in indulta sibi conjuratione regno regem deesse cognovit Londonia quam nec rex ipse Ricardus, nec prædecessor et pater ejus Henricus, pro mille millibus marcarum argenti fieri permisisset.

From London and the Kingdom - Volume I by Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson)

Non ideo voluit Deus mundum creare in tempore, quia vidit melius sic fore, quam si creasset ab æterno; nec voluit tres angulos trianguli æquales esse duobus rectis, quia cognovit aliter fieri non posse.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

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