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ENTIRE

ENS LEGIS. L. Lat. A creature of the law; an artificial being, as contrasted with a natural person. Applied to corporations, considered as deriving their existence entire ly from the law.

but in common parlance the entry Is 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 court, which is necessary before bringing an appeal or an action on the judgment. Blatchford v. Newberry, 100 111. 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, t. 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 in to 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 as signees, but the customer is entitled to them if they remain in his hands, or to their pro ceeds, if received, subject to any lien the bank er may have upon them. Wharton. L. Fr. A party challeng ing (claiming) goods; he who has placed them in the hands of a third person. Kel ham. ENTERTAINMENT. This word is synonymous with "board," and includes the ordinary necessaries of life. See Scatter good v. Waterman, 2 Miles (Pa.) 323; Lasar v. Johnson, 125 Cal. 549, 58 Pac. 161; In re Breslin, 45 Hun, 213. To solicit, persuade, or pro cure. Nash v. Douglass, 12 Abb. Prac. N. S. (N. T.) 190; People v. Carrier, 46 Mich. 442, 9 N. W. 487; Gould v. State, 71 Neb. 651, 99 N. W. 543. 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 contem S lation of law, comprises all the twenty-four ours, beginning and ending at twelve o'clock at night. Robertson v. State. 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 terminat ing at midnight. Haines v. State, 7 Tex. App. 30.— Entire interest. The whole interest or right, without diminution. Where a person in selling his tract of land sells also his entire interest in all improvements upon public land adiacent thereto, this vests in the purchaser only a quitclaim of his interest in the improve ments. McLeroy v. Duckworth, 13 La. Ann. ENTEBCEUB. ENTICE. ENTIBE. Whole; without division, sep aration, or diminution. — Entire contract. See CONTRACT.— Entire day.

ENSCHEDULE. count, or writing.

To insert in a list, ac

ENSEAL.

To seal. Ensealing

is still used

as a formal word in conveyancing.

ENSEBVEB.

L. Fr. To make subject

to a service or servitude. Britt. c. 54.

ENTAIL, v. To settle or limit the succes sion to real property; to create an estate tail. ENTAIL, n. A fee abridged or limited to the issue, or certain classes of issue, instead of descending to all the heirs. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 66; Cowell; 2 Bl. Comm. 112, note. Entail, in legal treatises, is used to signify an estate tail, especially with reference to the restraint which such an estate imposes upon its owner, or, in other words, the points where in such an estate differs from an estate in fee-simple. And this is often its popular sense; but sometimes it is, in popular language, used differently, so as to signify a succession of life estates, as when it is said that "an entail ends with A.," meaning that A. is the first person who is entitled to bar or cut off the entail, being in law the first tenant in tail. Mozley & Whitley. — Break or bar an entail. To free an es tate from the limitations imposed by an en tail and permit its free disposition, anciently by means of a fine or common recovery, but now by deed in which the tenant and next heir join.— Quasi entail. An estate pur autre vie may be granted, not only to a man and his heirs, but to a man and the heirs of his body, which is termed a "quasi entail;" the interest so granted not being properly an estate-tail, (for the statute De Bonis applies only where the subject of the entail is an estate of inherit ance,) but yet so far in the nature of an estate tail that it will go to the heir of the body as special occupant during the life of the cestui que vie, in the same manner as an estate of inheritance would descend, if limited to the grantee and the heirs of his body. Wharton.

ENTAILED.

Settled or limited to speci

fied heirs, or in tail. —Entailed money. Money directed to be in vested in realty to be entailed. 3 & 4 Wm. IV, c. 74, §§ 70, 71, 72.

ENTENCION.

In old English law. The

plaintiff's count or declaration.

ENTENDMENT. The old form of intend ment, (q. v.) derived directly from the French, and used to denote the true meaning or sig nification of a word or sentence; that is, the understanding or construction of law. Cowell. ENTEB. In the law of real property. To go upon land for the purpose of taking possession of it In strict usage, the enter ing is preliminary to the taking possession