0 present participle of pawn
1 to leave a possession with a pawnbroker, who gives you money for it and can sell it if the money is not paid back within a certain time:
Pawning had made possible stable, long-term use-rights transfers.
The absence of information on pawning before the seventeenth century makes such a discussion premature, if not impossible.
The issuing of this decree at that date implies that such pawning was still a newish practice in the 1760s.
Kinship strategies certainly affected the practice of pawning.
In contrast to pawning, where security was provided beforehand, panyarring involved the seizure of goods or people to force payment or their sale to compensate the creditor.
Hubbell reports both the pawning and sale of offspring.
Sometimes such structures seem to have provided security for credit without resort to pawning, even though pawnship perhaps existed in local economies supplying the export trade.
Pawning was discussed by the committee, however.
