cognovit
English
Etymology
Noun
cognovit (plural cognovits)
- (law) An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just.
Further reading
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cognovit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) cognōvit