I therefore treated this man's crime as one of a very mitigated character, no harm having been done to the second woman, and released him on his own recognizances to come up for judgment if he should be called upon.

Prisoners should always be released on their own recognizances where there is a reasonable expectation that they will appear.

" I thought they had had punishment enough for their offence, and gave them no imprisonment, but ordered them to be released on their own recognizances, and to come up for judgment if called upon.

This fellow might be in's time a great buyer of Land, with his Statutes, his Recognizances, his Fines, his double [Footnote 1: To feel the full force of this, we must call up the expression on the face of 'such a one' as he begged the horseprobably imitated by Hamletand contrast it with the look on the face of the skull.]

recognizance; deed of indemnity, covenant of indemnity.

If upon examination there appears reason to fear that the crime will be committed by the party complained of, he shall be required to enter into recognizance to keep the peace, failing in which he shall be committed to jail for the time to be covered by the surety, said time not to exceed six months.

How is it known at the county seat who the justices and constables in each town are? Define docket, summons, warrant, pleading, subpoena, crime, felony, misdemeanor, venire, costs, execution, recognizance.

RECOGNIZANCE.

Thus: The culprit, he assumed, is on bail, though not, of course, on his own recognizances.

" marking with particular emphasis and approbation the last six lines: "So the unnumbered sounds that evening store, The songs of birds, the whispering of the leaves, The voice of waters, the great bell that heaves With solemn sound, and thousand others more, That distance of recognizance bereaves, Make pleasing music, and not wild uproar.

This is the word "statutes," in the following sentence: "This fellow might be in's time a buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries.

This fellow might be in's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries: Is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt? will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases, and double ones, too, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures?

"At the time appointed for the session of the Circuit Court, Wilson appeared agreeably to his recognizance.

Consider (1) the complaint, (2) the warrant, (3) the return, (4) the recognizance, (5) the subpoena, (6) the arraignment, (7) the plea, (8) the testimony, (9) the arguments,(10) the judgment and sentence, and (11) the penalty and its enforcement.

The recognizances into which my prosecutors had entered were declared to be forfeited; and I was dismissed without further impediment from the bar.

We were then solemnly and severally informed that we were bound over in our own recognizances of £200 each to appear on Tuesday, April 17th, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to answer, etc., etc., etc., to which adjuration I only replied by a polite little bow.

The Lord Chief Justice at once set us free to come up for judgment on that day week, June 28ththe trial had lasted till the 21stand we went away on the same recognizances given before by Mr. Bradlaugh, an absolutely unprecedented courtesy to two technically "convicted prisoners".

The sentence is that you, Charles Bradlaugh, and you, Annie Besant, be imprisoned for the term of six calendar months; that you each pay a fine of £200 to the Queen; and that you enter further into your own recognizances in a sum of £500 each to be of good behavior for the term of two years; and I tell you at the same time that you will not be of 'good behavior' and will be liable to forfeit that sum if you continue to publish this book.

"The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE: Then you can be discharged on your own recognizances for £100, 'to be of good behavior,' which you will understand to mean, that you will desist from the publication of this work until your appeal shall have been heard, and will engage to prosecute the appeal without delay.

" We were then taken into custody, and went down to the Crown Office to get the form for the recognizances, the amount of which, £100, after such a sentence, was a fair proof of the view of the Court as to our good faith in the whole matter.

As a married woman, I was unable to give recognizances, being only a chattel, not a person cognisable by law; the Court mercifully ignored thisor I should have had to go to prisonand accepted Mr. Bradlaugh's sole recognizance as covering us both.

As a married woman, I was unable to give recognizances, being only a chattel, not a person cognisable by law; the Court mercifully ignored thisor I should have had to go to prisonand accepted Mr. Bradlaugh's sole recognizance as covering us both.

All the clergy here are his pupils, and suck all they have from him; Allen cannot make a warrant without his precedent, nor our quondam John Evans draw a recognizance sine directione Michaelis.

The visit was not paid to you, Princess, but to this noble and venerable castle, these stairways, these galleries, these winding corridorsit was a visit of recognizance, Your Highness, such as must precede any important undertaking.

Under a merely nominal recognizance, he sailed away with flying colors, and amid the plaudits of an admiring crowd, among whom, it is to be presumed, the authorities took care to be only not too conspicuous.