Definition of Pawnage

1. an act of pawning [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pawnage

pawkiest
pawkily
pawkiness
pawkinesses
pawks
pawky
pawl
pawled
pawless
pawling
pawls
pawn
pawn off
pawn ticket
pawnable
pawnage (current term)
pawnages
pawnbroker
pawnbroker's shop
pawnbrokers
pawnbroking
pawnbrokings
pawnce
pawnces
pawne
pawned
pawned off
pawnees
pawner
pawners

Literary usage of Pawnage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1793)
"... only have the profits as pawnage, herbage, &c. 21 Eliz. in С. В. 4 Le. 8. Anon. •See * words Hereditament. ..."

2. Annals of the Lords of Warrington for the First Five Centuries After the by William Beamont (1872)
"pawnage means therefore something very different from what the word at first suggests. According to our law writers pawnage means either the feeding of any ..."

3. A Digest of the Laws of England by Anthony Hammond, John Comyns (1825)
"9. every one shall have pawnage in his own land (viz. the mast of his trees, with swine) at his pleasure, except in land adjoining to the land or wood of ..."

4. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1762)
"... of St. Martin in the Winter, when that our Geft-takers (hall receive our pawnage : (2) And to ... unde ali- quid de fuo perdat. take his pawnage. ..."

5. Rights of Common and Other Prescriptive Rights: Being Twenty-four Lectures by Joshua Williams (1880)
"... which was called pawnage or pannage (h). For although no man might put these disagreeable animals into the waste lands of the forest to feed there, ..."

6. A Digest of the Public General Statutes: From Magna Carta, A.D. 1224-5, to 1 by Robert Philip Tyrwhitt, Thomas William Tyndale (1822)
"WHO MAY TAKE AGISTMENT AND pawnage IN FORESTS, id. C. 9. 18. Every freeman may agist his own wood within the forest, and shall take his ..."

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