45:22-1 - Short title; definitions - New Jersey Statutes

45:22-1.  Short title;  definitions
    This article shall be known as the  "pawnbroking law" .

    In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

      "Pawnbroker"  means any person, partnership, association or corporation lending money on deposit or pledge of personal property, other than choses in action, securities, or printed evidences of indebtedness;  or purchasing personal property on condition of selling it back at a stipulated price;  or doing business as furniture storage warehouseman and lending money on goods, wares or merchandise pledged or deposited as collateral security.

     "Pledge"  means an article or articles deposited with a pawnbroker in the course of his business.

     "Pledgor"  means a person who delivers the pledge into the possession of a  pawnbroker, unless such person discloses that he is or was acting for another,  and in such an event  "pledgor"  means the disclosed principal.