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cognizee, -isee Old Law.|kɒgnɪˈziː, kɒnɪ-|
Forms: 6–7 conisee, 6– cognisee, 8– cognizee.
[formed as correlative to cognizor, on the model of words in -ee etymologically correlative to words in -or. But the formation is not etymological.]
The party in whose favour a fine of land was levied; he to whom cognizance was made.
1531–2Act 23 Hen. VIII, c. 6 §1 The same reconisance dyd not in any wise touch or concerne..the cognisor ne the cognisee. 1594West Symbol. ii. §52 The Cognisor is he that knowledgeth the fine, the Cognisee is he to whom it is knowledged. 1613Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 473 Of these lands so deliuered, the conisee being ousted, shall haue an assise or redisseisin. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 341 In which case the king, etc., is called the cognizee, is cui cognoscitur; as he that enters into the recognizance is called the cognizor, is qui cognoscit. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) IV. 120 Whenever the cognizee appears in court and admits satisfaction, the recognizance is discharged. |