Montes Pietatis

Public pawnbroking establishments; institutions established by government, in some European countries, for lending small sums of money on pledges of personal property. Im France they are called “montis de picté.” according as one or another of the following varieties of months is intended: Astronomical, containing one-twelfth of the time occupied by the sun in through ea the entire zodiac. Calendar, civil, ar solar, which is one of the months in the Gregorian calendar,—January, February, Mareh, ete.,—-which are of unequal length. Zunar, being the period of one revolution of the mvon, or twenty-eight days.