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Pawnee, the bailment of goods as security for payment of a debt or performance of a promise is called 'pledge'. The bailor is in this case called the 'pawnor'. The bailee is called 'pawnee'. Indian Contract Act, 1872 (9 of 1872), s. 172The person with whom a pawn is deposited. See Pawn....
Pawn or Pledge
Pawn or Pledge [fr. pignus, Lat.], a bailment of goods by a debtor to his creditor, to be kept till the debt is discharged.A mortgage of goods is in the Common Law distinguishable from a mere pledge or pawn. By a mortgage the whole legal title passes conditionally to the mortgagee; and if the goods be not redeemed at the stipulated time, the title becomes absolute at law although equity allows a redemption. But in a pledge, a special property only passes to the pledgee, the general property remaining in the pledgor. Also, in the case of a pledge, the right of a pledgee is not consummated, except by possession; and, ordinarily, when that possession is relinquished, the right of the pledgee is extinguished or waived. But, in the case of a mortgage of personal property the right of property passes by the conveyance to the mortgagee, and the possession is not or may not be essential to create or support the title.As to things which may be the subject of pawn: These are, ordinarily, goods a...
Loups
The Pawnees a tribe of North American Indians whose principal totem was the wolf...
Pawnee
One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security one who takes anything in pawn...
Pawnees
A tribe of Indians called also Loups who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river but now 1890 live mostly in the Indian Territory Oklahoma The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas Called also Pani...
Dealer, auction
Dealer, auction, a person who in the normal course of his business attends sales by auction for the purpose of purchasing goods with a view to reselling them, Auctions (Bidding Agreements) Act, 1927, s. 1(2) (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 944, p. 461.means a person carrying on the business of selling fertilisers, whether wholesale or retail (or industrial use), and includes a manufacturer and a pool-handling agency carrying on such business and the agents of such person, manufacturer or pool-handling agency, State of Punjab v. Gunomajra Cooperative Agriculture Service Society Ltd., (2000) 9 SCC 210.There is nothing either in the main definition in s. 2(5) or in the Explanation of the Orissa Taxation (on Goods Carried by Road and Inland Water ways) Act, 1959 to suggest that the manager or agent of the dealer (principal) should have his own business within the State of Orissa before he could be proceeded against or assessed under the Act. It would be sufficient if the manager...
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