Estreat
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A true copy or note of some original writing or record, and especially of fines and amercements imposed by a court, extracted from the record, and certified to a. proper officer or officers, authorized and required to collect them.
Pitzh. Nat. Brev. 57, 76.
A forfeited recognizance taken out from among the other records for the purpose of being sent up to the exchequer, that the parties might be sued thereon, was said to be estreated.
4 Bl. Comm. 253.