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ENTRY

Volume 9 · 91 words · 1842 Edition

in Law, signifies taking possession of lands or tenements, where a person has a right so to do.

ENTRY of an Heir, in Scotch Law, that legal form by which an heir vests in himself a title to his predecessor's estate.

ENUMERATION, an account of several things, in which mention is made of every particular article.

ENUMERATION, in Rhetoric, a part of the peroration, in which the orator, collecting the scattered heads of what had been delivered throughout the discourse, makes a brief and artful relation or recapitulation of the whole.