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Definition of Estreating
1. estreat [v] - See also: estreat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Estreating
Literary usage of Estreating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Digest of Canadian Criminal Case Law: Comprising the Reported Cases on by George Edward McCrossan, Samuel Davies Schultz, Andrew Miller Harper (1908)
"404, that notice was necessary, and that the order estreating the recognizance
was improperly made : — Held, otherwise, per Town- shend. ..."
2. The practice of magistrates' courts by Thomas William Saunders (1858)
"With reference to estreating recognizances, it will be sufficient to direct the
reader's attention to Dickinson's Q. Sess. 994, and Burn's Justice, vol. ..."
3. Annotated Forms of Federal Procedure by Frank Olds Loveland, George Washington Rightmire (1921)
"estreating Bail of Principal and Sureties. Call defendant's name three times to
come into court, and answer the information [or indictment] filed against ..."
4. Magisterial Synopsis: Comprising Summary Convictions, the Offences by George Colwell Oke (1849)
"13), in manner and by the same forms as before referred to. In each of the cases
above mentioned (by ss. 3, 9, 13,16) estreating the there ..."
5. A Practical Treatise Upon the Criminal Law and Practice of the State of New by John H. Colby (1868)
"... into another recognizance, and the performance of its condition, constitutes
no defence to an" action on the first.5 § 56. estreating THE RECOGNIZANCE. ..."
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