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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[L. Fr. entre, entree; L. Lat. ingressus, introitus,] The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entermg into, or setting foot upon the same; an extrajudicial and summary remedy agains certain species of injury by ouster, (viz., abatement, intrusion, and disseisin,) used by the legal owner when another person who has no ri^ht has previously taken possession of lands or tenements.

3 Bl. Uom. 5, 174. 1 Steph, Com. 469, 470. Crabb's Hisi. 402, 403. Burton's Real Prop. 120, teseq. 1 ff Uliarc Ts Heal Prop. 83. 2 Id. 151. Tomlint.

It must be peaceable and without force.

3 BL Cam. ub, sup.