recognisance

That is, all candidates run for office under their own recognisance in a single election often with run-off provisions if no one wins a majority on the first round with no party affiliations listed.

City Official Uses Office to Quash Website - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009

I may try to sneak into the area tomorrow to run recognisance.

Archive 2008-09-01 Kosmo 2008

“That will be my cousin Jeanie Deans, Mr. Archibald,” said Mrs. Glass, with a courtesy of recognisance.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

I discovered after the War that this was a recognisance flight assessing the damage, so once again the BC was wrong I was there he was not.

How I was called a liar by a Colonel representing the MOD in the PTSD Group Action Rogue Gunner 2006

I discovered after the War that this was a recognisance flight assessing the damage, so once again the BC was wrong I was there he was not.

Archive 2006-12-01 Rogue Gunner 2006

At length, being quite at the end of my money, and seeing no other help for it, I determined to listen to clerks no more, but force my way up to the Justices, and insist upon being heard by them, or discharged from my recognisance.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Frank in a recognisance, I think they call it — a hard word compounded of re and cognosco; but it differs in its meaning from the use of the simple, as many other compounds do.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

Director of Public Prosecutions and that Mda had been released on his own recognisance.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

Then she applied to the master, that is to say, the man whose goods had been stolen, and particularly to his wife, who, as I told you, was inclined at first to have some compassion for me; she found the woman the same still, but the man alleged he was bound by the justice that committed me, to prosecute, and that he should forfeit his recognisance.

Moll Flanders 2003

The woman had been released on her own recognisance and the three minor children were released into the care of a family member.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2003