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Pedem Ponere

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

(L. Lat.)

In civil and old English law. To put or place the foot. A figurative expression used to dethem, or symbolically by merely placing the foot upon the ground. Britt. cc. 35, 36, 42, 43.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

To place the foot; to enter upon land.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

1. 1.

In civil and old English law. To put or place the foot; the taking possession of lands by standing on or walking over them, or by merely placing the foot on the ground.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

/. To place the foot; enter positio: actual possession. Pee,//-. The foot; the foot of a/»e.