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Estreat   Listen
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Estreat  v. t.  (past & past part. estreated; pres. part. estreating)  (Law)
(a)
To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; said of a forfeited recognizance.
(b)
To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine.





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"Estreat" Quotes from Famous Books



... delivered to him by assent of the Earl of Lancaster, and of the other grandees who then there were of the council of our lord the King, by the hand of Sire Robert de Wodehouse, and now comes in estreat to the viscounts of London out of the Checquer, to cause to take the goods and chattels of the said Richard, eighty-nine pounds twelve shillings and sixpence, for the fee aforesaid, whereof he prays that remedy be ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 • Various


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