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ENTRECASTEATJX. 129 ENTRY. groups of islands. His name is perpetuated in the Entrecasteaux Archipelago ; Entreeasteaux Point, on the southwestern coast of Australia; and in Entrecasteaux Channel, between Tasmania and Bruni Island. Three separate accounts of his eventful expedition were published in Paris. ENTRE DOURO E MINHO, fiw'tre do'I-ro a me'nyo ('between Douro and Minho'), or Minho. A province of Portugal, bounded by Spain, from which it is separated by the Minho on the north, the Portuguese Province of Tras-os- Montes on the east, the River Douro on the south, and the Atlantic on the west (Map: Portugal, A 2). Area, 2807 square miles. The surface is broken and mountainous, with some snow- capped peaks in the eastern part. The numerous streams afford irrigation facilities, and the soil is well cultivated. For administrative purposes the province is divided into the three districts of Vianna do Costello, Braga, and Porto (Oporto). It is the most densely populated province of Por- tugal. Population, in 1890, 1,008,356; in 1900, 1,173,106. ENTRE RIOS, an'tra re'is ('between rivers'). A province of Argentina, bounded by the Prov- ince of Corrientes on the north, Uruguay River on the east, and the Parana on the south and west (Map: Argentina, F 10). Area, 28,784 square miles. The country is generally flat, well wooded, and well watered. Cattle-raising is the principal occupation of the inhabitants. The province is amply provided with transportation facilities through its railways and navigable waterwavs. The chief exports are animal prod- ucts. Population, in 1895, 292.019; in 1900 (estimated), 343,684. Capital, Parana. EN'TRESOL, French pron. aN'tr'-sol' (Fr. entre, between -f- sol, ground). A low story be- tween two main stories of a building (gener- ally between the ground floor and the first story), or between two portions of one story, when certain rooms are of greater height than the others upon the same floor. It is sometimes called the mezzanine floor. ENTRO'PION, or ENTROPIUM (Neo-Lat., from Gk. ivrpoirla, entropia, evTptm-q, entrope, introversion, from lv, en, in + rpiirtiv, trepein, to turn). Inversion of the margin of the eyelid, consequent either on loss of substance ('cica- tricial entropion') or on spasmodic contraction of the orbicularis palpebrarum muscle which closes the eyelids ('spasmodic entropion'). The latter form occurs chiefly in old persons, in whom the skin of the eyelid is relaxed and the eyeball sunken. The symptoms are due to the irritation of the cornea by the eyelashes, which are inverted and rub against it. (See Trichiasis.) Removal of the lashes may relieve temporarily, but unless the cause can be removed a careful operation is necessary. ENTRY. See Level. ENTRY, Right of. In the common law, the right to consummate an inchoate or incomplete title to land by taking possession thereof. This right is in legal theory coextensive with the right of possession, but it carries with it the implication that such possession is wrongfully withheld or, at least, that it has not been trans- ferred to and assumed by the person entitled. The right arises under three principal sets of -circumstances: (a) Where an estate has passed by descent, or a lease for years has been made to a person uol in possession. In such case the common law require- I lie heir or the lessee to enter up'm the land in order to invest himself completely with the estate to which he has thus become entitled, (b) When lands are unlawfully with- held under a claim of freehold, from a person entitled thereto, as by a disseisin or adverse possession. The rightful owner may at common law, by an actual reentry upon the lands, restore his title and thus prevent the adverse possession from ripening into a title, (c) Where lands have been conveyed upon a condition and the condition has been broken. Here the estate re- mains unaffected until the grantor or his heir exercises his right of entry, whereupon the estate of the grantee is ipso facto determined and the grantor "is in of his old estate." The peculiar nature of the right of entry a3 a legal right appears from this enumeration of cases to which it is applicable. Though having to do with real estate, it is not itself an estate or interest in lands, nor, indeed, any species of property whatsoever, either corporeal or incor- poreal ; and though it will usually descend to tne heir of the person entitled to it, it is in most cases incapable of assignment or transfer either by deed or will. On the other hand, it is not a mere right of action, which could not. by any magic, be transmuted, like the right of entry, into a substantial estate. Originally a right of entry might be exercised by force, if necessary, but by an early English statute (5 Rich. II., st. 1, c. 8) it was provided that this remedy must be pursued "in a peace- able and easy manner, and not with force or strong hand" ; and since that date an entry, if opposed, can be made only by legal process. (See Forcible Entry. ) The usual method pro- vided is a summary proceeding instituted by writ of entry, under which, if it be defended, the right to" the possession of the property in dispute can be tried and legally determined. In some of the United States this procedure must be followed in every case, even where the entry of the claimant is not disputed, but in others the common-law remedy is still available. A right of entry is extinguished by an open and notorious possession of the premises for the period prescribed by the statute of limitations, which, in the United States, is usually twenty years. See Adverse Possession; Condition; Descent Cast; Disseisin; Limitation. ENTRY, Writ of. An ancient form of action at common law for the recovery of the possession of land wrongfully withheld from the claimant. It belonged to the class of possessory, as distin- guished from droitural, remedies, in the latter of which the right (droit) or title to the land was tried, and in the former the mere right of pos- session. But the feudal origin and character of our land law made title or ownership of real property depend in most instances on the posses- sion of the land, and accordingly the possessory remedies came gradually to supersede those which were based upon a direct and exclusive assertion of ownership. There were many of these posses- sore' remedies appropriate to various circum- stances (of which the assize of nonj disseisin and the assize of nwrt d'ancestor were in most general use) ; but the one which was available in all cases of wrongful ouster or dispossession.