pawnbroker

Defined in 6 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)

United States Code

18 U.S.C. § 921 — as used in this chapter

The term “pawnbroker” means any person whose business or occupation includes the taking or receiving, by way of pledge or pawn, of any firearm as security for the payment or repayment of money.

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

One whose business it

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

One engaged in lending money on interest and in taking goods in pledge as security therefor. See 33 Ark. 436.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

One whose business it is to lend money, usually in small sums, upon pawn or pledge. An ordinance requiring pawnbrokers to keep a book in which shall be entered a description of all property left in pawn, with the name and description of the pledgor and to submit such book to the inspection of the mayor or any police oificer on demand, is a valid police regulation; St. Joseph v. Levin, 128 Mo. 588,' 31 S. W. 101, 49 Am. St. Rep. 577; Launder v. Chicago, 111 111. 291, 53 Am. Rep. 625. And one forbidding them to purchase certain specified articles is not unreasonable as imposing upon pawnbrokers a penalty for doing that which is lawful for other persons to do, as a city may not only regulate their business, but suppress and prohibit it; Kuhn v. Chicago, 30 111. App. 203. An ordinance requiring pawnbrokers to take out a license is not authorized by a statute empowering city councils to make bylaws and ordinances not ^inconsistent with the laws of the state and necessary to carry out the object of the corporation; Shuman v. Ft. Wayne, 127 Ind. 109, 26 N. E. 560, 11

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

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.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

A person whose business it is personal property received in pledge.