from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
CONTINUAL CLAIM, English law. When the feoffee of land is prevented from
taking possession by fear of menaces or bodily harm, he may make a claim to
the land in the presence of the vares[?], and if this claim is regularly made
once every year and a day, which is then called a continual claim, it
preserves to the feoffee his rights, and is equal to a legal entry. 3 Bl.
Com. 175; 2 Bl. Com. 320; 1 Chit. Pr. 278 (a) in note; Crabbe's Inst. E. L.
403.