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To go upon lands for the purpose of taking possession; to take possession. In a strict use of terms, "entry" and "taking possession" would, seem to be distinct parts of the same act; but, practically, "entry" is now merged in "taking possession." 1 Washb. Real Prop. 10, 32; Stearns, Real Actions, 2. To cause to be put down upon the record. An attorney is said to enter his appearance, or the party himself may enter an appearance. 74 Ind. 59. To enter judgment is to formally enroll it or repose the evidence of it in the record or permanent memorial of the acts of the court. ENTERCEUR (Law Fr.) A party challenging (claiming) goods; he who has placed them in the hands of a third person. Kelham.

To go upon lands for the purpose of taking possession; to take possession. In a strict use of terms, entry and taking possession would seem to be distinct parts of the same act; but, practically, entry is now merged in taking possession. 1 Washb. R. P. 10, 32; Stearn, Real Act. 2. To cause to be put down upon the record. An attorney is said to enter his appearance, or the party himself may enter an appearance. See Entry.

In the law of real property. To go upon land for the purpose of inking possession of it In strict usage, the entering is preliminary to the taking possession but in common parlance the entry ls now merged in the taking possession. See Entry. In practice. To place anything before a court, or upon or among the records, in a formal and regular manner, and usually in writing; as to "enter an appearance," to "enter a judgment." In this sense the word is nearly equivalent to setting down formally in writing, in either a full or abridged form.

— Entering judgments. The formal entry of the judgment on the rolls of the which is necessary before bringing an or an action on the judgment. Blatchford v. Newberry, 100 III. 491; Winstead v. Evans (Tex. Civ. App.) 33 S. W. 580; Coe v. Erb, 59 Ohio St. 259. 52 N. E. 640, 69 Am. St. Rep. 764.

— Entering short. When bills not due are paid into a bank by a customer, it is the custom of some bankers not to carry the amount of the bills directly to his credit, but to "enter them short," as it is called, i. e., to note down the receipt of the bills, their amounts, and the times when they become due in a previous column of the page, and the amounts when received are carried forward into the usual cash column. Sometimes, instead of entering such bills short, bankers credit the customer directly with the amount of the bills as cash, charging interest on any advances they may make on their account, and allow him at once to draw upon them to that amount. If the banker becomes bankrupt, the property in bills entered short does not pass to his assignees, but the customer is entitled to them if they remain in his hands, or to their proceeds, if received, subject to any lien the banker may have upon them. Wharton.

To take actual possession of before a court, and usually in writing records.

In the law of real property. To go upon tand for the purpose of taking possession of it. In strict usage, the entering is preliminary to the taking possession, but in common parlance the entry is now merged in the taking possession.

In practice. To place anything before a court, or upon or among the records, in a formal and regular manner, and usually in writing; as to “enter an appearance,” to “enter a judgment.” In this sense the word is nearly equivalent to setting down formally in writing, in either a full or abridged form,

See Entry.

entre,y5'. In; within; among. Entre mains: at hand, in his hands. Enterlesse,/*-. Left out; omitted.

[from L. Fr. entrer, (q. v.); L. Lat. intrare.] To take actual possession of lands; to go into, or upon them. See Entry. In practice. To place a thing properly before a court, and usually in writing; to put upon, or among its records; as to enter an appearance, rule or judgment. The word has nearly the same sense of setting down in writing, either at large, or in an abridged form, as in mercantile accounts.