{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-45-22-1","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 45:22-1","heading":"Short title;  definitions","body":"This article shall be known as the  \"pawnbroking law\" .\nIn this article, unless the context otherwise requires:\n\"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.\n\"Pledge\"  means an article or articles deposited with a pawnbroker in the course of his business.\n\"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.","path":["TITLE 45 PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"625601363ce99c3d5dfa19f413994a8454728290c153a6f614ec8f8484bc4793","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-45-21-15","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-45-22-2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}