Pawn

n. A bailment of goods to a creditor, as security for some debt or engagement; a pledge.

Story, Bailm. § 7; Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 913; Barrett v. Cole, 49 N. C. 40; Surbsr v. McClintic, 10 W. Va. 242; Commercial Bank v. Flowers, 116 Ga. 219, 42 S. E. 474.

Pawn, or pledge, is a bailment of goods by a debtor to his creditor, to be kept till the debt is discharged.

Wharton.

Also the specific chattel delivered to the creditor in this contract. In the law of Louisiana, pawn is known as one species of the contract of pledge, the other being antiahrenis; but the word "pawn" is sometimes used as synonymous with "pledge," thus including both species. Civ. Code La. art. 3101. ' v. To deliver personal property to another in pledge or as security for a debt or sum borrowed.