Associations to the word «Recognisance»

Wiktionary

RECOGNISANCE, noun. Alternative spelling of recognizance

Dictionary definition

RECOGNISANCE, noun. (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King