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The act of setting down the particulars of a sale, or other transaction, in a merchant’s or tradesman’s account books. Such entries are, in general, prima fade evidence of the sale and delivery, and of work done; but unless the entry be the original one, it is not evidence. The submitting to the inspection of officers appointed by law, who have the collection of the customs, goods imported into the United States, together with a statement or description of such goods, and the original invoices of the same, for the purpose of estimating the duties to be paid thereon. Act March 2, 1799, § 36 (1 Story, U. S. Laws, 606), and Act March 1, 1828 (3 Story, U. S. Laws, 1881) , regulate the manner of making entries of goods. In Criminal Law. The act of entering a dwelling house, or other building, in order to commit a crime. See “Burglary.”Of a Judgment. A ministerial act which consists in spreading it upon the record or writing it at large, in English language (q. v.), 153 in. 199, in a docket or other official book. 191 111. App. 639; 195 111. App. 182. -AJpon Real Estate. The act of going upon the lands of another, or lands claimed as one’s own, with intent to take possession. 1 Ala. 674.
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The act of setting down the particulars of a sale, or other transaction, in a merchant’s or tradesman’s account books. Such entries are, in general, prima fade evidence of the sale and delivery, and of work done; but unless the entry be the original one, it is not evidence. The submitting to the inspection of officers appointed by law, who have the collection of the customs, goods imported into the United States, together with a statement or description of such goods, and the original invoices of the same, for the purpose of estimating the duties to be paid thereon. Act March 2, 1799, § 36 (1 Story, U. S. Laws, 606), and Act March 1, 1828 (3 Story, U. S. Laws, 1881) , regulate the manner of making entries of goods. In Criminal Law. The act of entering a dwelling house, or other building, in order to commit a crime. See “Burglary.”Of a Judgment. A ministerial act which consists in spreading it upon the record or writing it at large, in English language (q. v.), 153 in. 199, in a docket or other official book. 191 111. App. 639; 195 111. App. 182. -AJpon Real Estate. The act of going upon the lands of another, or lands claimed as one’s own, with intent to take possession. 1 Ala. 674.
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