recognitor Now only Hist.
(rɪˈkɒgnɪtə(r))
Also 6 -our.
[a. med.L. recognitor (Bracton), agent-n. f. recognit-, recognōscĕre to recognosce.]
A member of a jury impanelled on an assize or inquest (cf. recognition 2 b).
| 1574 tr. Littleton's Tenures 78 The recognitours of the assise may say and yelde to the justices their verdite at large uppon all the matter. 1628 Coke On Litt. i. 253 So may he shew the Recognitors in an Assise, the view of lands in another County. 1768 Blackstone Comm. III. xx. 297 In assises of land, where also there is..merely a question of right stated for the determination of the recognitors or jury, the tenant makes no such defence. 1819 Edin. Rev. XXXII. 10 Bok-land was held by the oaths of seven recognitors. 1876 Freeman Norm. Conq. V. xxiv. 452 The recognitors are not judges but witnesses, witnesses declaring their verdict from their personal knowledge. |