Note 41 — Book I.
John Beames translation
Recognitiones. Upon the words facere recognitionem, Sir Edward Coke thus comments.—“Cognitio is knowledge or knowledgement, or opinion, and Recognition is a serious acknowledgement, or opinion upon such matters of fact as they shall have in charge, and thereupon the Jurors are called Recognitores Assisæ,” (Vide Co. Litt. 158. b.) Our author treats largely on Recognitions in the 12th Book, to which we refer the reader.