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The person pawning goods or delivering goods to another in pledge. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition One who, being liable to an engagement, gives to the person to whom he is liable, a thing to be held as a security for the payment of his debt or the fulfillment of his liability. 2. The rights of the pawnor are to redeem the pledge, at any time before it is sold. 3. … [Read more...] about PAWNOR

The proprietors of certain manors created in New York in colonial times were so called. … [Read more...] about PATROON

Latin: In old English law. The peace of the church. A particular privilege attached to a church; sanctuary, (q. v.) Crabb, Eng. Law, 41; Cowell. … [Read more...] about PAX ECCLESIAE

Latin: In the civil law. A cousin-german by the father's side; the son or daughter of a father's brother. Wharton. … [Read more...] about PATRUELIS

Latin: .The peace of the king; that is, the peace, good order, and security for life and property which it is one of the objects of government to maintain, and which the king, as the personification of the power of the state, is supposed to guaranty to all persons within the protection of the law. This name was also given, in ancient times, to a certain privileged district or … [Read more...] about PAX REGIS