Emption

2. 4.

Depositing for copyright the title or description of a book or other article. Whence " Entered according to Act of Congress," etc.

See Copyright.

5.

Recording in due form and order a thing done in court: as, an appearance made, a judgment rendered. Styled " docket " or "record" entries. When a written order is signed by the judge and filed with the clerk, who enters a brief statement thereof in his "minute-book, the order, although not then recorded in the order-book, is "entered," within the meaning of a law limiting the time for appeal.* In a literal sense, writing up a judgment in a docket is "entering" it; as, entering the judgment of a justice of the peace. • 6. In the practice of legislative bodies, the orderly inscription in a journal of any action or determination required to be preserved in writing. The constitution of Iowa requires that a proposed amendment " shaU be entered " in the journals of the two houses of Assembly "with the yeas and nays."

1 Blaine v. Bourne, 11 E. 1.

121 (1876), Potter, J. ' [United States v. Baker, 6 Bened. 35 (1871), Blatchford, J.; 12 St. L. 737. 3 United States.. Seidenberg, 17 F. E. 230 (1883), Pardee, J., ^ i Chotard v. Pope, 12 Wheat. 588 (1827), Johnson, J. »Uren v Walsh, 67 Wis. 102 (1883); E. S. Wis. § 3042. « Kuykendall, 29 Kan. 707, 710 (1883); Kan. This means that the amendment shall be spread at length thereon, and the yeas and nays set out in the journal in full. But instances where "to enter" and "entered" do not naeau to spread at length may be cited. The object to be obtained must be considered in each case.'

See Yeas akd Nats.