▪ I. estreat, n. Law.
(ɪˈstriːt)
Forms: 6 estrayte, -eyt, 6– estreat. Also 5–7 aphet. strete, (5 streete).
[a. AF. estrete, OF. estraite (in law Lat. extracta), fem. n. from pa. pple. of estraire to extract:—L. extrahĕre, f. ex out + trahĕre to draw. Cf. Fr. extrait extract.]
1. ‘The true extract, copy. or note of some original writing or record, esp. of fines, amercements, etc., entered on the rolls of a court to be levied by the bailiff or other officer’. (Wharton.)
| [1292 Britton i. xxii. §7 Qi..ount..plus levé qe contenu ne fust en les estretes de noster Escheker.] c 1440 Promp. Parv. 480 Streete, catchepol['s] bok to gader by mercymentys. 1479 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 421 The seide Toune clerk to make vp his Stretys vnto the Baillifs. 1514 Fitzherb. Just. Peas (1538) 137 b, Shall be bounde and shall make theyr Estraytes. 1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edw. II, §24 (1876) 17 The clarke of the market..shal deliver..the stretes into the warderobe. 1641 Termes de la Ley 178 Greene waxe..signifies the estreats of issues, fines, and amercements. 1679–88 Secr. Serv. Money Chas. & Jas. (Camden Soc.) 160 To supply the estreats of the patents in the 16th year of King Ch. 2{supd}. 1857 Toulm. Smith Parish 107 Estreats—that is copies—of all the fines and forfeitures imposed. 1875 Stubbs Const. Hist. II. xvi. 452 note, The estreats or rate rolls of the general taxation. |
| transf. 1625 Lisle Du Bartas, Noe 158 What are they but estreats of those originals? Wherof th' Almighty word engroue the portrature. |
b. Clerk of the Estreats (see quot.).
| 1667 E. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. ii. xiii. (1743) 120 The office of the Clerk of the Estreats is to receive every term the estreats or extracts out of the office of the Remembrancer. 1721–1800 in Bailey. 1833 Crabb Technol. Dict. |
† 2. transf. in pl. The fines themselves and other payments enforced by law. Obs.
| c 1550 Plumpton Corr. 255 He did receive xis..over and above your rents and your estreats. 1630 in Nichols Churchw. Acc. St. Margarets Westm. (1797) 40 John Fennell and Ralph Atkinson collectors of the estreats for repair of Brentford Bridge and Knightsbridge. 1640 Order Ho. Commons in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 154 The said Clerks Wages, and the several Fines and Estreats. |
▪ II. estreat, v.
(ɪˈstriːt)
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To extract or take out the record of (a fine, bail, recognizance, etc.) and return it to the court of exchequer to be prosecuted.
| 1523 Fitzherb. Surv. 28 The issues and profytes of them are estreyted by the sayd iustices, and returned in to the kynges escheker. 1649 Selden Laws Eng. ii. xi. (1739) 59 If they were not arrayed, then the Recognizances of such as undertook the work, are estreated. 1737 Col. Rec. Penn. IV. 256 Lest their Recognizances should be estreated. 1827 Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) III. xiii. 8 The fines thus imposed upon jurors had been estreated into the exchequer. Mod. The recognizances were ordered to be estreated. |
2. loosely. To exact (a fine); to enforce forfeiture of (anything).
| 1647 Boyle Agst. Swearing Wks. 1772 VI. 24 The poor..seem to have a title..to the amerciaments that are estreated upon trespasses against their Lord. 1843 Lever J. Hinton xix, The old farmer saw his tricks confiscated, and his games estreated. |