1. A copy or extract of a court record, especially a record of a fine or forfeiture.
Usage: legal; archaic

1. To extract or copy (a record) from a court document; to enforce payment of a fine by extracting it from a record.
Usage: legal; archaic

Examples

• The clerk prepared an estreat of the judgment for the defendant.
• The court estreats fines from the official records each quarter.
• An estreat was issued to collect the outstanding penalty.
• The legal document contained several estreats of previous convictions.
• The judge ordered the clerk to estreat the fine from the court records.