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Estreat

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Es`treat´
n.1.(Law) A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer.
Estreat of a recognizance
the extracting or taking out a forfeited recognizance from among the other records of the court, for the purpose of a prosecution in another court, or it may be in the same court.
- Burrill.
v. t.1.(Law) 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.
[imp. & p. p. Estreated; p. pr. & vb. n. Estreating.]
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31) Lang explains the fiscal timing: there was "a legal maximum of sixteen days (5 to 20 October) for the assessors to do their valuing and assessing, for the commissioners to hear appeals from those who claimed to be overvalued, and for the estreats for the petty collectors to be drafted.
Elizabeth Pickering: the first woman to print law books in England ... by Kreps, Barbara / Renaissance Quarterly
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