Meaning of Legal Term Cognizance

In the old practice. The part of the fine in which the defendant acknowledged that the land in question was the applicant`s right. From there, the fine itself takes its name from de jure cognizance, etc. and the parties derive their Cognizer and Cognizee securities. In modern practice. Judicial notification or knowledge; the judicial hearing of a case; the competence or right to attempt to determine the causes; Recognition; Confession; Recognition. Number of requests. Jurisdiction of cases. Privilege granted by the king to a city or a city to respect the same requests. The right to knowledge (or confirmation) is an intervention by a third party demanding a judicial decision on the merits against the plaintiff who has chosen to file his claim in the plaintiff`s court. 2 Wils. 409; 2 Bl. Comm.

350, note in plea. Type of response in Replevin`s application, whereby the defendant acknowledges the removal of the goods that are the subject of the action and that he does not own them, but justifies the recovery by the fact that it was made on the order of a person having a right of ownership. When he imposes a fine, the forcer considers that the land in question belongs to the complainant. In the language of American jurisprudence, this word is primarily used in the sense of jurisdiction or exercise of jurisdiction; judicial review of a matter or the power to issue it. Webster v. Com., 5 Cush. (Mass) 400; Clarion County v. Hospital, 111 Pa. 339, 3 Atl. 07. Judicial knowledge is a communication or judicial knowledge on the basis of which a judge must act without this being proved as evidence.

A term used to describe the information on which a judge must act, regardless of whether it has not been proven as evidence. What is perceptible to a judge is within his jurisdiction. A justice of the peace, for example, would have no knowledge of a major criminal matter. The power, authority and ability of a judge to decide a particular legal issue. A judge`s decision to recognize or hear a case. Knowledge of Middle English, Latinization (according to cognÅscere and its derivatives) of conissaunce, conoisance «knowledge, understanding, distinctive signs (as on a shield)», borrowed from the Anglo-French conoisance, conisance, from conisant, conoissant «conscious, conscious» (from the present particular of conoistre «to know, to be aware», back to Latin cognÅscere «to know, to acquire the knowledge of») + -ance -ance â plus to cognition. Old Frenchman right to recognize and judge things, literally, knowledge, knowledge, to be known by knowing. The peasant uprising forced Parliament to take note of the industrial difficulties. Each day he climbed the escort ladder to the aft main deck and gradually disappeared from forward knowledge. The authorities had already taken note of his death and prepared their preliminary report. And now I was again rational enough to take note of the flight of time. Above, on earth, noon must have struck – for those who still know the sun and the hours.

Supported by Black`s Law Dictionary, Free 2nd ed., and The Law Dictionary.