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- noun Plural form of
recognitor .
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And it is significant that in the earliest inquisitions extant for Glamorgan -- or inquests by sworn recognitors -- Welshmen were freely employed in the work of local government.
Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures 1904
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"inquest by sworn recognitors," from which trial by jury was developed, were soon acclimatised in the Marches of Wales.
Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures 1904
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