Recognitor

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Re`cog´ni`tor

    (rė`kǒg´nĭ`tẽr)
n.1.(Law) One of a jury impaneled on an assize.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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To prevent abuses, Henry II invented the writ 'de odio et atia,' by which a person could avoid trial by battle by submitting the question of whether the accuser had brought the appeal 'from hatred and malice' to the verdict of recognitors.' The writ effectively substituted a sort of trial by jury for the trial by battle.
A foothold for real democracy in Eastern Europe: how instituting jury trials in Ukraine can bring about meaningful governmental and juridical reforms and can help spread these reforms across Eastern Europe
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