NRS-843 | Estreat Rolls, District Court Country sittings

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(10/8095 part-8100). 6 boxes (part).

Note:

This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.

According to Tomlins' Law Dictionary 'estreat' means 'The true extract, copy, or note, of some original writing or record, and especially of fines, amercements, &c. entered on the rolls of a court, to be levied by the bailiff or other officer." (1)

Under Section 7 of the Fines and Forfeited Recognizances Act 1954 the Clerk of the Peace was to enter onto a roll, called the Estreat Roll, every fine and forfeited recognizance imposed or forfeited within the district for which the court was held, or by or before such court at the sittings then closed and every fine and forfeited recognizance entered in any previous roll which the court had during such sittings ordered to be inserted in such roll. (2)

Endnotes
1. Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, The law-dictionary: explaining the rise, progress, and present state of the British law; defining and interpreting the terms or words of art; and comprising also copious information on the subjects of trade and government. 3rd ed. London: Printed for Payne and Foss, 1820.
2. Fines and Forfeited Recognizances Act, 1954 (Act No.25, 1954), section 7.