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.

See also: Estreat

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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