Definition of Pawnor

1. pawner [n -S] - See also: pawner

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pawnor

pawnbroker's shop
pawnbrokers
pawnbroking
pawnbrokings
pawnce
pawnces
pawne
pawned
pawned off
pawnees
pawner
pawners
pawning
pawning off
pawnless
pawnor (current term)
pawnors
pawns
pawns off
pawnshop
pawnshops
pawpaw
pawpaws
pawprint
pawprints
paws
pawsful
pax
paxes
paxil

Literary usage of Pawnor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations from the Civil and by Joseph Story, James Schouler (1878)
"When Pawn may be delivered to original Owner, if he is not the pawnor. 341. ... Duties of pawnor. Warranty of Title. 355. Concealment of Defects of Pawn. ..."

2. Institutes of American Law by John Bouvier (1854)
"By the act of pawning, the pawnor enters into an implied agreement or warranty ... (d) The pawnor has the right to redeem the pledge, notwithstanding he has ..."

3. Wrongs and Their Remedies: A Treatise on the Law of Torts by Charles Greenstreet Addison, Francis Stafford Pipe Wolferstan, James M. Dudley, Edwin Baylies (1876)
"In cases between pawnor and pawnee, where the pawnee has by* an illegal ... and the pawnor has in consequence brought an action for the conversion of the ..."

4. The Contract of Pawn: As it Exists at Common Law, and as Modified by the by Francis Turner (1883)
"As pawning is merely the delivery of a chattel as security for the payment of a debt or the fulfilment of an engagement (a) the pawnor is not thereby ..."

5. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"... that delivery was essential to a pledge, and that the general property did not pass, as in the case of a mortgage, but remained with the pawnor. ..."

6. Cases Argued and Determined in the Court for the Trial of Impeachments and by George Caines, New York (State). Supreme Court (1807)
"sell when he pleases, without first calling on the pawnor, or if the pawnor,s right is gone by his sudden death, the law would establish a most disgusting ..."

7. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1917)
"... and not by a seizure of the pledge.15 Similarly, it has been held that a pawned chattel is not attachable in an action against the pawnor.16 It has been ..."

8. A Treatise on the Law of Lien, and Stoppage in Transitu by John Cross (1859)
"This statute entitles a pawnbroker to sell the pledges in his hands by public auction, after the expiration of a year and a day, unless the pawnor give a ..."

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