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Estreat, (1) the true extract, copy, or note of some original writing or record, and especially of recognizances, fines, amercements, etc., entered on the rolls of a Court to be levied by the bailiff or other officer, Fitz. N.B. 57; also (2) to forfeit. See RECOGNIZANCE.A copy or duplicate of some original writing or record, esp. of a fine or amendment imposed by a court, extracted from record, and certified to one who is authorised and required to collect it, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 572....
Recognisance
Recognisance, an acknowledgement of a debt owing to the Crown, with a condition to be void if the recognizor shall do some particular act, as if he, or the party for whom he is surety, shall appear at the assizes to prosecute a person, or to come up for judgment when called upon, or shall prosecute an appeal, or shall be of good behaviour, commonly called 'binding over.' As to the power of justices of their own initiative to bind over a person, though no formal charge has been made against him, see R. v. Wilkins, (1907) 2 KB 380. See also R. v. Sandbach, Ex p. Williams, (1935) 2 KB 192, and Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 49), s. 31,sub-s. 3, as amended by Summary Jurisdiction (Appeals) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 38), s. 1; and as to the mode of entering into recognizance, see Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, s. 24; see also ss. 19-23. For forms of recognizance, see the schedule to the Summary Jurisdiction rules, 1886; also rules 112-115 of the Crown Offic...
Estreat
A true copy duplicate or extract of an original writing or record esp of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff or other officer...
Greenwax
Greenwax, estreats delivered to a sheriff out of the Exchequer, under the seal of the Court, which was impressed upon green wax, to be levied, 7 Hen. 4, c. 3...
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