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Ken :: Ken (n.) Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge..

Recognizance :: Recognizance (n.) Acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; recognition.

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..

Bailpiece :: Bailpiece (n.) A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond..

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

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

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

Recognizance :: Recognizance (n.) A token; a symbol; a pledge; a badge.

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..

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..

Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done.

Recognizance :: Recognizance (n.) The verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize.

Crown Office :: Crown office () The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases..

Cognoscence :: Cognoscence (n.) Cognizance.

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..

Conference :: Conference (n.) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters..

Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) The distinguishing mark worn by an armed knight, usually upon the helmet, and by his retainers and followers: Hence, in general, a badge worn by a retainer or dependent, to indicate the person or party to which he belonged; a token by which a thing may be known..

Perceive :: Perceive (v. t.) To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the senses; to see, hear, or feel; as, to perceive a distant ship; to perceive a discord..

Privity :: Privity (a.) Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern; cognizance implying consent or concurrence.

Knowledge :: Knowledge (v. i.) Scope of information; cognizance; notice; as, it has not come to my knowledge..

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