ENTRY, in law, is the taking possession of lands or tenements, where the party has a title of entry, or an immediate right to possess them. This may be in or by attorney, or is an entry in law, which is merely the making con firma! claim, by law considered equiva lent to entry. A right of entry is when a party may have his remedy, either by entering into the lands, or by action to recover it. A title of entry is where one has a lawful entry in the land which ano ther has, but has no action to recover it till he has entered.
Entry is a summary remedy against certain species of injury by ouster, or putting out of possession of lands; when the party must make a formal but peace able entry, declaring that he takes pos session ; or may enter upon any part in the same county in the name of the whole ; and if he cannot go upon the land for bodily fear, he may make a claim as near the estate as he can, which must be repeated once within every year and day, and is called continual claim. This remedy is admitted only where the adverse possession originally commenced by wrong, as in the in stances technically called abatement, in trusion, or disseisin. On a discontinuance
or deforcement, the party is put to his action. Even in the former cases, when the original wrongful possessor dies, and the land comes to his heir, the right of entry is tolled, i. e. taken away by the descent. If the claimant was under dis ability, from age, coverture, &c. the en try is not tolled by descent ; nor in case of an actual disseisin, unless the disseisor was in peaceable possession for five years. Stat. 32 Henry VIII. c. 33. En try must be made within 20 years after the claimant's right shall accrue, 21 Jac. 1. c. 16; and by 4 and 5 Anne, c. 16, no entry shall avail to save this statute, un less an action is commenced and prose cuted with effect upon it within one year after ; and, finally, by slat. 5 Ric. II. st. 1. c. 8, entry must he pursued in a peaceable manner; for if one turns or keeps another out of possession forcibly, it is not only the subject of a civil reme dy, but of a fine and punishment for a misdemeanor.