Cognizance

Cognizance may refer to:

• Cognizance, IIT Roorkee,^[1] an annual technical festival held at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
• Cognizance, a heraldic badge, emblem, or device formerly worn by retainers of a royal or noble house
• In law, cognizance is the action of taking judicial notice, satisfaction to court from the available materials as to the existence of prima facie to proceed further for any enquiry or trial
• Church of Cognizance, a church founded in 1991
• Cognizance (band), a British Technical death metal band

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