In English Law. A writ which lay in favor of the reversioner, when the tenant for term of life, tenant for term of anoth- er's life, tenant by the curtesy, or tenant in dower had aliened and died. Tomlin, Law Dict. Long obsolete, and abolished in 1883. ENTRY, WRIT OF. In Old Prac- tice. A real action brought to recover the possession of lands from one who wrong- fully withholds possession thereof. Such writs were said to be in the Quibus, where the suit was brought against the party who committed the wrong; in the Per, where the tenant against whom the action was brought was either heir or grantee of the original wrong-doer; in the Per and Cui, where there had been two descents, two alienations, or descent and an alienation; in the Post, where the wrong was removed beyond the degrees men- tioned. The above designations are derived from signif icant Latin words in the respective forms adapted to the cases given. A descent or alienation on the part of the disseisor constituted a degree (see Co. Litt. 299 a); and at common law the writ could be brought only within the degrees (two), the demand- ant after that being driven to his writ of right. By the statute of Maribridge (q. v.), 2 Hen. III. c. 30 (A. D. 1967), however, a writ of entry, after (post) those degrees had been passed in the alienation of the es- tate, was allowed. Where there had been no descent and the demandant himself had been dispossessed, the writ ran, Præcipe A quod reddat B sex acras terræ, etc. de quibus idem A, etc. (command A to restore to B six acres of land, etc., of which the said A, etc.); if there had been a descent after the de scription came, the clause, in quod idem A non ha bet ingressum nisi per C qui illud ei demisit (into which the said A. the tenant, has no entry but through C, who demised it to him); where there were two descents, nisi per Doui Cillud demisit (but by D, to whom C demised it); where it was be- yond the degrees, nisi post disseisinam quam C (but after the disseisin which C, the original disseisor, did, etc.). The writ was of many varieties, also, according to the character of the title of the claimant and the circumstances of the deprivation of possession. Booth enumerates and discusses twelve of these, of which some are sur disseisin, sur intrusion, ad com munem legem, ad terminum qui preterit, cui in vita, cui ante divortium, etc. Either of these might, of course, be brought in any of the four degrees, as the circumstances of the case required. The use of writs of entry has been long since abolished in Eng- land; but they are still in use in a modified form in some of the United States, as the common means of recovering possession of realty against a wrong- ful occupant; 2 Pick. 478; 10 id. 850; 5 N. H. 450; 88 Me. 21,71; 85 id. 90; 124 Masa. 807, 408; 189 id. 244; 157 id. See Stearn, Real Act.; Booth, R. A.; Co. Litt. 288 6. To maintain a writ of entry, the demand- ant who declares on his own seisin, and alleges a disseisin, is required to prove only that he has a right of entry and need not prove an actual wrongful dispossession or an adverse possession by the tenants; 161 Mass. 91.