Cognoscere

Concept of “Cognoscere”

Traditional meaning of cognoscere in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) To acknowledge. Cognovit actionem (he has acknowledged the action), or cognovit: a written confession of the justice of 8 an action at law, signed by the defendant or his attorney after the declaration, authorizing the plaintiff to enter judgment for a sum named; see 3rd Book (“Of Private Wrongs”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 304, 397. If after plea, it contained an agreement to withdraw the plea, and was called a cognovit actionem relicta verificatione (the plea being abandoned), or a relicta.

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1. Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Cognoscere”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.

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