Estreat

Estreat (Lat. extractum), in English law, a true extract copy or note of some original writing or record, and specially of fines or amercements, as entered in the rolls of a court, to be levied by bailiffs or other officers. When, however, it is applied to a Recognisance (q.v.), it signifies that the recognisance itself is estreated for execution. If the condition of a recognisance be broken, the recognisance is forfeited; and on its being estreated the parties become debtors to the crown for the sums in which they are bound.