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Definition of Impawns
1. impawn [v] - See also: impawn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impawns
Literary usage of Impawns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Several Courts of the United by Alexander James Dallas, Frederick Charles Brightly, United States Supreme Court (1906)
"But be this as it may, it is clear, that if a master borrows and impawns the
ship, without necessity, it will not be good. Hob. p. 12; Mol. lib. 2, ch. ..."
2. The American Law Journal by John Elihu Hall (1817)
"... an English merchant residing there, and prevails with him to lend fifty pounds
to repair and furnish his ship, and for his security, impawns the ship; ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1871)
"... session of tho Forty-second Congress, to make з ivn material reduction in the
revenues without impawns the banks and held as security for the redemption ..."