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Cognoscence :: Cognoscence (n.) Cognizance.

Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) The hearing a matter judicially.

Device :: Device (n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance..

Before :: Before (prep.) Under the cognizance or jurisdiction of.

Perception :: Perception (n.) The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition..

Jurisdiction :: "Jurisdiction (a.) The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes, are within the jurisdiction of a particular court, that is, within the limits of its authority or commission..

Estreat :: Estreat (v. t.) To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance..

Rota :: Rota (n.) An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members..

Connusance :: Connusance (n.) See Cognizance.

Recognizance :: Recognizance (n.) An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal..

Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another..

Badge :: Badge (n.) A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman..

Recognizee :: Recognizee (n.) The person in whose favor a recognizance is made.

Appellate :: Appellate (a.) Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals..

Ken :: Ken (n. t.) To know; to understand; to take cognizance of.

Incognizance :: Incognizance (n.) Failure to cognize, apprehended, or notice..

Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) Recollection; recognition.

Witness :: Witness (v. t.) To see or know by personal presence; to have direct cognizance of.

Feel :: Feel (v. t.) To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs..

Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) Jurisdiction, or the power given by law to hear and decide controversies..

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