on someone's own recognizance

:  some person :  somebody

: used to express immediate or direct kinship

:  to have or hold as property :  possess

:  to have power or mastery over

:  to acknowledge to be true, valid, or as claimed :  admit

:  an obligation of record entered into before a court or magistrate requiring the performance of an act (such as appearance in court) usually under penalty of a money forfeiture

:  the sum liable to forfeiture upon such an obligation

:  token, pledge