Estreat

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.]

ESTREAT. This term is used to signify a true copy or note of some original writing or record, and specially of flues and amercements imposed by a court, and extracted from the record, and certified to a proper officer or officers authorized and required to collect them. Vide F. N. B. 57, 76.