Recognizance is valid Scrabble Word

Is recognizance a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is recognizance valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

12 letters word
26 points in Scrabble
31 points in WWF

Definitions for RECOGNIZANCE in dictionary:

NOUN:

a legal obligation entered into before a magistrate to do, or not to do, some particular act, also RECOGNISANCE
a bond by which a person undertakes before a court or magistrate to observe some condition, especially to appear when summoned
An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party\'s seal.
The verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize.
A token; a symbol; a pledge; a badge.
Acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; recognition.
(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
a legal obligation entered into before a magistrate to do, or not to do, some particular act

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

an obligation of record entered into before a court or magistrate requiring the performance of an act (as appearance in court) usually under penalty of a money forfeiture; the sum liable to forfeiture upon such an obligation

Words related to RECOGNIZANCE

recognizances27 recognizant23

Words that contain RECOGNIZANCE

recognizances27

How to use RECOGNIZANCE in a sentence

When Friend Hopper had obtained a copy of the recognizance, signed by the magistrate, he chuckled inwardly and marched out of the office.
The recognizance we have just signed is good for nothing.
Division commanders are a law unto themselves, and much to his surprise, two days later, Bob MacNair was released upon his own recognizance.
Justice Charles, it was granted and Wilde was set free in his own recognizance of L2,500 with two other sureties for L1,250 each.
Zebedee was allowed to go back to her friends, on entering into her own recognizance to appear again if called upon.
So, for the present, I will allow him to go on his own recognizance, believing that he will adduce his documents at the proper time.
One day the king of the wrens held his court for the trial of a bear, who was at large upon his own recognizance.
During the walk she had taken rapid recognizance of everything in her path.
A similar bond or recognizance is given in case of bail.

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