In legal terminology, a document or record, particularly one extracted from a larger document or official record.
From Old French 'estre', ultimately from Latin 'extrahere' meaning 'to extract'. The word entered English legal vocabulary but is now archaic, largely replaced by 'extract'.
Legal English borrowed heavily from French after 1066, and 'estre' is one of those now-forgotten words that shows how Norman-French shaped our entire legal system.
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