Recognizance
The term “recognizance” refers to an obligation the court enters that holds an individual to a particular condition. For example, recognizance refers to the court agreeing not to imprison a defendant, so long as he agrees to attend supervised probation in its place. Other ways of describing a recognizance include “a release on one’s own recognizance (ROR),” “own recognizance (OR)” […]
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