Legal Definition and Related Resources of Estreat
Meaning of Estreat
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.
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Estreat in Law Enforcement
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- estreat in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
- estreat in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
- A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis
English Legal System: Estreat
In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Estreat : from Old French estraif, ‘an abstract of record’)
1. n. an extract from a record relating to *recognizances and fines.
2. v. To forfeit a recognizance, especially one given by the surety of someone admitted to bail, or to enforce a fine.
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