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Estreat

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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.
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31) Lang explains the fiscal timing: there was "a legal maximum of sixteen days (5 to 20 October) for the assessors to do their valuing and assessing, for the commissioners to hear appeals from those who claimed to be overvalued, and for the estreats for the petty collectors to be drafted.
Elizabeth Pickering: the first woman to print law books in England ... by Kreps, Barbara / Renaissance Quarterly
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