Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1792 – Pledgor’s warranty; division of things
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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1792
- Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Pawnbroker: means a person who lends money on a deposit or pledge or who takes other things into possession as security for money advanced or who makes a public display at his place of business of the sign generally used by pawnbrokers to denote his business, namely, three gilt or yellow balls, or who publicly exhibits a sign that money is to be loaned on things on deposit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1782
- Things: means any property, movable and immovable, corporeal and incorporeal, and rights therein. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1782
A pledgor warrants that the thing pledged is not stolen, that the pledgor has not received the thing by fraud, that the thing has no liens or encumbrances against it, that the pledgor is not in voluntary or involuntary bankruptcy and is not anticipating filing a bankruptcy proceeding of any type, and that the pledgor has the right to pawn the thing. A pawnbroker and a pledgor may agree to divide groups or sets of things pawned into separate pawn transactions.
Acts 1993, No. 391, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.