noun. In law, an acknowledgment or confession by a defendant that the plaintiff's cause, or a part of it, is just, wherefore the defendant, to save expense, suffers judgment to be entered without trial. More fully written cognovit actionem.

noun. An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just.

noun. An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just.

"Aliam mere liberam, qua Deus post liberum actum suae voluntatis absque hypothesi et conditione aliqua cognovit absolute et determinate ex complexionibus omnibus contingentibus, quaenam re ipsa essent futurae, quae non item."