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amounts, and the times when they become due in a previous column of the page, and the amounts when received are carried for ward into the usual cash column. Some times, 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 ac count, 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 cus tomer 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. ENTERTAINMENT. This word is synonymous with "board," and includes the ordinary necessaries of life. 2 Miles, 323. ENTICE. To solicit, persuade, or pro cure. 12 Abb. Pr. (N. S.) 187. ENTIRE. Whole; without division, sep aration, or diminution. ENTIRE CONTRACT. Where a con tract consists of many parts, which may be considered as parts of one whole, the contract is entire. When the parts may be consid ered as so many distinct contracts, entered into at one time, and expressed in the same instrument, but not thereby made one con tract, the contract is a separable contract. But, if the consideration of the contract is single and entire, the contract must be held to be entire, although the subject of the con tract may consist of several distinct and wholly independent items. 2 Pars. Cont. 517. ENTIRE DAY. This phrase signifies an undivided day, not parts of two days. An entire day must have a legal, fixed, precise time to begin, and a fixed, precise time to end. A day, in contemplation of law, com prises all the twenty-four hours, beginning and ending at twelve o'clock at night. 43 Ala. 325. In a statute requiring the closing of all liquor saloons during "the entire day of any election," etc., this phrase means the natural day of twenty-four hours, commencing and terminating at midnight. 7 Tex. App. 30; Id. 192. ENTIRE INTEREST. The whole in terest or right, without diminution. Where a person in selling his tract of land sells also his entire interest in all improvements upon public land adjacent thereto, this vests in the

purchaser only a quitclaim of his interest in the improvements. 13 La. Ann. 410. ENTIRE TENANCY. A sole posses sion by one person, called "severalty," which is contrary to several tenancy, where a joint or common possession is in one or more. ENTIRE USE,BENEFIT, ETC. These words in the habendum of a trust-deed for the benefit of a married woman are equivalent to the words "sole use," or "sole and separate use," and consequently her husband takes nothing under such deed. 3 Ired. Eq. 414. ENTIRETY. The whole, in contradis tinction to a moiety or part only. When land is conveyed to husband and wife, they do not take by moieties, but both are seised of the en tirety. 2 Kent, Comm.132; 4 Kent, Comm. 362. Parceners, on the other hand, have not an entirety of interest, but each is properly en titled to the whole of a distinct moiety. 2 Bl. Comm. 188. The word is also used to designate that which the law considers as one whole, and not capable of being divided into parts. Thus, a judgment, it is held, is an entirety, and, if void as to one of the two defendants, cannot be valid as to the other. So, if a contract is an entirety, no part of the consideration is due until the whole has been performed. ENTITLE. In its usual sense, to entitle is to give a right or title. Therefore a person is said to be entitled to property when he has a right to it. In ecclesiastical law. To entitle is to give a title or ordination as a minister. ENTREBAT. L. Fr. An intruder or interloper. Britt. c. 114. ENTREGA. Span. Delivery. Las Par tidas, pt. 6, tit. 14,1. 1. ENTREPOT. A warehouse or magazine for the deposit of goods. In France, a build ing or place where goods from abroad may be deposited, and from whence they may be with drawn for exportation to another country, without paying a duty. Brande; Webster. ENTRY. 1. In real property law. Entry is the act of going peaceably upon a piece of land which is claimed as one's own, but which is held by another person, with the intention and for the purpose of taking pos session of the same. Entry is a remedy which the law affords to an injured party ousted of his lands by another per son who has taken possession thereof without right. This remedy (which must in all cases be pursued peaceably) takes place in three only out

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