On the basis of the Prigg decision, a law was enacted which forbade State magistrates to issue certificates or take cognizance of the law of 1793, and withheld the use of State jails for the imprisonment of fugitives.
This forbade State officers to take cognizance of fugitive slave cases, and the use of State jails.
Footnote 275: The following tabulation shows the provisions of the personal liberty laws as distributed among the States:-- Judges and justices forbidden to take cognizance.
When these offences were so fully covered by secular law, the Suprema deemed it unnecessary that the tribunals should be diverted from their legitimate functions to take cognizance of them.
By it the courts of the Province of Upper Canada were empowered to take cognizance of causes civil and criminal.
To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs.
To perceive by the ear; to apprehend ortake cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.
Again, in playing a game of chess we require to take cognizance of many and complex relations, actual and contingent; so that to play the game as it deserves to be played, we must make a heavy demand on our powers of abstract thinking.
For, a priori, the more unformed the powers of perception, the less able must they be totake cognizance of particulars.
The degree to which such classificatory extension of a denotative name may take place depends, of course, on the degree in which the mind is able to take cognizance of resemblances or analogies.
In either case connotation would have followed denotation up to whatever point the higher receptual (“pre-conceptual”) intelligence of such an ancestry was able to take cognizance of simple analogies.
So far as Susan's concerned, I promise to 'take cognizance' in every possible direction.
The entire prominence hitherto given to the works of one artist caused only by our not being able to take cognizance of character.
The entire prominence hitherto given to the works of one artist caused only by our not being able to take cognizance of character.
Of this kind of beauty Turner was the first to take cognizance, and he still remains the only, but in himself the sufficient painter of French landscape.
Accordingly, the spokesmen of the various countries interested were summoned to take cognizance of the decision and intimate their readiness to conform to it.
Both the praetor and his council were relieved from a burden of no ordinary weight in not having to take cognizance of charges against Scipio.
Inquisition of Logrono, Saragossa, and Barcelona, to take cognizance of all the crimes relating to the introduction of Spanish horses into France.
Appeals shall be carried before the tribunals of France, or the United States, to whom it may appertain to take cognizance thereof.
Why do you come to the conclusion that the forces of the universe are incapable of producing every effect of which I take cognizance?
They say that spirit and matter have nothing in common, and that mortal man can not take cognizance of immortality.
A substance unsubstantial that possesses nothing of which our senses enable us to take cognizance.
I, in fact, affirm that there is only one existence, and that all we take cognizance of is mode, or attribute of mode, of that existence.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "take cognizance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
