[f. prec. sb.]
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. Pennsylv., 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.
