estreat

plural estreats

1. lawA true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, especially of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer.

   If the crime reached onely to ſhamefull penance, […] then might that penance be reduced to a ranſome, according to the graine of the offence aſſeſſed in the preſence of a Judge by the free men, and entered upon the roll, and the eſtreat of each ranſome ſeverally and apart ſent to the Sheriffe.

   1647, Nath[aniel] Bacon, “Of Passing of Judgement and Execution”, in An Historicall Discourse of the Uniformity of the Government of England. The First Part. From the First Times till the Reign of Edward the Third, London: […] Mathew Walbancke […], →OCLC, page 94

present singular third person estreats · participle present estreating · participle past estreated · past estreated

1. transitivelawTo 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.
2. transitiveTo bring in to the exchequer, as a fine.