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Short entry

Short entry. It takes place when a bill or note, not due, has been sent to a bank for collection, and an entry of it is made in the customer's bank-book, stating the amount in an inner column, and carrying it into the accounts between the parties when it has been paid. See ENTERING SHORT....


Short cause

Short cause, an action in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, where there is only a simple point for discussion and which counsel has certified as fit to be heard 'short', Felstead v. Gray, 1874 LR 18 Eq 92. As tot he entry in the Short Cause list of an action in the King's Bench Division, see R.S.C. Ord. XIV., r. 8....


Entry

Entry, the depositing of a document in the proper office or place; actual entry on land is necessary to constitute a seisin in deed, and is necessary in certain cases, as, e.g., to perfect a common-law lease.When a person without any right has taken posses-sion of land, the party entitled may make a formal but peaceable entry, which is quite an extra judicial and summary remedy, on such lands, declaring that thereby he takes possession, which notorious act of ownership is equivalent to a feudal investiture by the lord; or he may enter on any part of it in the same county, declaring it to be in the name of the whole; but if it lie indifferent counties, he must make different entries. This remedy by entry takes place in three only of the five species of ouster-viz., abatement, intrusion, and disseisin; for as in these the original entry of the wrongdoer was unlawful, they may therefore be remedied by the mere entry of him who has right. But upon a discontinuance or deforcement, the owner...


Forcible entry

Forcible entry is the entering upon any land or tenement with a strong hand, or in a violent manner, in order to take possession. There may be a forcible entry although no actual force is used, as, for example, when threats are made or an unusual number of persons collected. Forcible entry was permissible at Common Law in certain cases, e.g., when the rightful owner had been wrongfully deprived of possession, but it was absolutely pro-hibited by the Statutes of Forcible Entry (5 Rich. 2, c. 7; 15 Rich. 2, c. 2; 8 Hen. 6, c. 9), which make forcible entries punishable with imprisonment. The first of these statues provides that 'none shall make entry into any lands or tenements, but in case where entry is given bylaw, and in such case not with strong hand nor with multitude of people, but only in a peaceable and easy manner.' A forcible entry by a person entitled to possession, though indictable, does not give rise to civil responsibility in damages. See Hemmings v. Stoke Poges Golf Club,...


Fictitious entry

Fictitious entry, A fictitious entry is one which is not genuine. It is an unreal entry. Entries which are not genuine cannot confirm anybody's rights. It is too obvious to be stressed that an entry which is incorrectly introduced into the records by reason of ill-will or hostility is not only shorn of authenticity but also becomes utterly useless without any lawful basis, Bachan v. Kankar, AIR 1972 SC 2157 (2160): (1972) 2 SCC 555: (1973) 1 SCR 727....


Re-entry

Re-entry, the resuming or retaking that possession which one has lately foregone. A clause of this nature, called a 'proviso for re-entry,' is inserted in every properly drawn lease, empowering the lessor to re-enter upon the demised premises if the rent is in arrear for a certain period, e.g., twenty-one days, or if there shall be any breach of the lessee's covenants. A proviso for re-entry, strictly speaking, is only applicable to corporeal hereditaments; see Sitwell v. Londesborough (Earl of), (1905) 1 Ch 465. A proviso for re-entry for breach of covenant has been denounced by a judge of the greatest eminence as 'a most odious stipulation', Hodgkinson v. Crowe, (1875) LR 10 Ch 626, per Sir Wm. James, L.J., but in practice is certainly common enough. A proviso confined to the case of non-payment of rent is a 'usual' stipulation: see Re Anderton, (1890) 45 Ch D 476. A lease under the Settled Land Act, 1882, must contain a condition of re-entry on the rent not being paid within a speci...


Single entry

Single entry, an entry made to charge or to credit an individual or thing, as distinguished from double entry, which is an entry of both the debit and credit accounts of a transaction. See DOUBLE ENTRY....


Shortness

The quality or state of being short want of reach or extension brevity deficiency as the shortness of a journey the shortness of the days in winter the shortness of an essay the shortness of the memory a shortness of provisions shortness of breath...


forcible entry

forcible entry 1 : the unlawful taking of possession of real property by force or threats of force against the lawful possessor see also forcible entry and detainer 2 : unlawful entry into or onto another's property esp. when accompanied by force [forcible entry of an automobile] ...


Entry

The act of entering or passing into or upon entrance ingress hence beginnings or first attempts as the entry of a person into a house or city the entry of a river into the sea the entry of air into the blood an entry upon an undertaking...


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