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EN I OYER, in heraldry, denotes a bordnre charged whollywith things without life: it seems to tie a corruption of the French ciitour, roundabout.
ENTRE DOURO E MINIIO, or ENTRE-DUF.RO-E-MIN HO, a province of Portugal , so named from its situation be-tween the rivers Duero and Minho; CO miles long from N. to S.and 35 broad. The soil is fertile and the air pure.
ENTREPAS, in the manege, a broken pace or going, that isneither walk nor trot, but has somewhat of an amble. 'Phis is apace or gait of such horses as have no reins or back, and go upontheir shoulders; or, of such as are spoiled in their limbs.
EN'l RK-TAJO-E-GUADI AN A, the province of Alentejo .See Alentejo .
EN'l RING LADDERS, in a ship, are of two sorts ; one usedby the vessel’s sides, in a harbour, or in fair weather, for persons■to go in and out of the ship: the other is made of ropes, with smallslaves for steps; and is hung out of the gallery to enter into theboat, or to come aboard the ship, when the sea runs so high thatthey dare not bring the boat to -the ship’s side for fear of staving it.
ENTRY, Writ of, isa writ directed to thesheritf, requiring himto command the tenant of the land, that he render to the demand-ant the premises in question, or appear in court on such a day, andshew w ily he has not done it. Of this writ there are four kinds.1. A writ of entry sur disseisin, that lies for tiie disseisee againstthe disseisor, upon a disseisin done by himself; and this is calleda writ of entry in the nature of an assise. 2. A writ of entry surdisseisin in the per, for the heir by descent, who is said to he inthe per, as he comes in by his ancestor. 3. A writ of entry surdisseisin in the per and cui, where the feoffee of a disseisor makes afeoffment over to another; and then the form of a writ is, that thetenant had no title to enter but by a prior alienee, to whom the in-truder demised it. A writ of entry sur disseisin in the post, whichlies after a disseisin : the land is removed from hand to hand, incase of a more remote seisin, whereunto the other three degrees donot extend, 1 fnst. 238. Rut all these writs are now disused, as thetitle of lands is now usually tried upon actions of ejectment ortrespass.
Entry ad Communem Legem. The writ of entry ad com-munem legem lies where tenant in dower, or tenant by tbecourtesy, or for life, aliens in fee, or for the life of another, or intail, the lands which they hold, &c. after their death, he in the re-version who has it in fee, or for life, shall have this writ againstwhomsoever is in possession of the land.
Entry ad Terminum atn Pr.eteriit : a writ of entry ad ter-minum qui pra-teriit, lies w here a man leases kinds or tenementsfor term of life, or years, and afterwards the term expires, and heto whom the lease was made, or a stranger, enters upon the land,and occupies the same, and deforces the lessor; the lessor or hisheirs shall have the writ. And this w rit lies in the per, cui, and post;for if the lessee holds over his term, and afterwards makes a feoff-ment, the lessor or heirs may have this writ against the feoffee inthe per; and if the feoffee makes a feoffment over, he may have itagainst the second feoffee in the per and cui, and against {he thirdfeoffee in the post.
Entry in Casu Consimili. A writ of entry in casu consimiiilies where tenant by the courtesy, or for life, or for another’s life,aliens in fee, or in’tail, or for life ; now he in the reversion, whohas an estate there for life, or in fee simple, or in tail, shall havethat writ during the life of the tenant for life who aliened.
Entry i.v Casu Proviso. The writ of entry in casu provisolies where tenant in dower aliens in fee, for life, or in tail, the landwhich he holds in dower ; he who lias tbe reversion in fee, or intail, or for life shall maintain that writ against the alienee, and againsthim who is the tenant of the freehold of land during the life of the ten-ant in dower, Scc.and the writ may be made in the per, cui, and post.
Entry Causa Matrimonii 1’rj.i.ocuti, lies where lands ortenements are given to a man, on condition that he shall take tin-donor to his wife within a certain time: and if he do not espouseher within the limited time, or espouse another, or otherwise dis-able himself, that he cannot take her according to the said con-dition, then the donor and her heirs shall have the said writ againsthim, or aga-nst whoever else is in the said land.
Entry, Hill of, in commerce, See Rill. In making entriesinwards, it is usual for merchants to include all the goods they have•u board the same ship in one bill, though sometimes they may
happen to be upwards of twenty several kinds; and in case thegoods are short-entered, additional or post-entries are now allowed,though formerly the goods so entered were forfeited. As to billsof entry outwards, or including goods to be exported, upon de-livering them, and paying the customs, you shall receive a smallpiece of parchment called a cocket, which testifies your paymentthereof, and all duties for such goods. If several sorts of goods areexported at once, of which some are free, and others pay customs,tlu: exporter must have two cockets, and therefore must make twoentries; one fibr the goods that pay, and the other for the goods that| do not pay custom. Entries of goods on which a drawback is al-lowed, must likewise contain the name of the ship in which thegoods were imported, the importer’s name, and time of entry in-wards. The entry being tints made, and an oath taken that thecustoms for those goods were paid as the law directs, you mustcarry it to (he collector and comptroller, or their deputies; who,after examining their books, will grant a warrant, which must hegiven to the surveyor, searcher, or land-waiter, for them to certifytiie quantity of goods; after which the certificate must he broughthack to the collector and comptroller, or their deputies, and oathmade that the said goods are really shipped, and not landed againin any part of Great Britain .
EN V'ELOPE, in fortification, a work of earth, sometimes inform of a simple parapet, and at others like a small rampart with aparallel: it is raised sometimes on the ditch, and sometimes be-yond it.
ENVIRONNE’, in heraldry, signifies surrounded with otherthings: thus, they say, a lion enveronewilh so many bezants.
EN L.\i E RATI ON, in rhetoric, a part of peroration ; in whichthe orator, collecting the scattered heads of what had been de-livered throughout the whole, makes a brief recapitulationthereof.
ENVOY, a person deputed to negociate some affair with aforeign prince or state. 'Those sent trom the courts of Britain ,France, .Spain , See. to any petty prince or state, such as the princesof Germany, the late republics of Venice , Genoa, Sec. go inquality inferior to that of ambassadors; and such a character onlydo those pei-sons bear, who go from any of the principal courts ofEurope to another, when the affair they go upon is not verysolemn or important. 'There are envoys ordinary and extraor-dinary, as well as ambassadors; they arc equally under tin-pro-tection of the law of nations, and enjoy all the privileges of am-bassadors ; only differing in this, that the same ceremonies are notperformed to them.
EOLIPII.E. See vEoi.ipila.
EON, or TON. See .Eon.
EON IAN'S, in church history, tiie followers of Eon, a wild fa-natic of the province of Bretagne , in the 12th century, whose brainwas disordered. He concluded from the resemblance betweeneum, in the form for exorcising malignant spirits, viz. Per cum,qui venturus est judicare vivos and mortuos, and his own nameEon, that he was the Son of God, and ordained tojudge the quickand the dead. He was solemnly condemned by the council atKlieims, in 1143, at which Pope Eugoniuslll. presided, anti endedhis clays in a miserable prison.
EORIA, in mythology, a feast celebrated by the Athenians inhonour of Erigonus, who, by way of punishment, for their notavenging tiie death of his fattier Icarus, engaged the gods to indictthis curse on their daughters, that they should love men who neverreturned their passion.
EOS THE, in mythology, a goddess of the Saxons , to whomthey sacrificed in April, called the month of Eostra ; and thencethe name of Easier, which the Saxons retained after their conver-sion to Christianity , applying it to the festival celebrated in com-memoration of our Saviour’s resurrect ion.
E PACK IS, a genus of the monogynia order, and pentandria classof plants. Calyx live-parted; corolla monopelalous, tubular,roundish, depressed, quinquelocular, quinqucvalvular; capsule,gaping; seeds numerous, small. It has four species, natives ofNew Zealand .
EPACT, [ur«x t-i, from urnyu i, to intercalate,] a number,whereby we note the excess of the common solar year above thelunar, and thereby may find out flie age of the moon every year.For the solar,year consisting of 365 days, the lunar but of 354, thelunations every year get 11 days before the solar year; and thereby,
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