Pawnbroker
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A person whose business is to lend money, usually in small sums, on security of personal property deposited with him or left in pawn.
Little Bock v. Barton, 33 Ark. 444; Schaul v. Charlotte, 118 N. C. 733, 24 S. E. 526; Chicago v. Hulbert, 118 III. 632, 8 N. E. 812, 59 Am. Rep. 400.
Whoever loans money on deposit or pledges of personal property, or who purchases personal property or choses in action, on condition of selling the same back again at a stip-uiated price, is hereby defined and declared to' be a pawnbroker.
Rev. St. Ohio 1880, § 4387. See, also, 14 U. S. St at Large, 116.