recognizor
English
Alternative forms
- recognisor
Noun
recognizor (plural recognizors)
- (historical, law) One who enters into a recognizance.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- No crime attaches to the recognizors for suffering a forfeiture, any more than in failing to perform any other civil contract
References
- “recognizor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.