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The usurer will go on hanging the cozener as long as we have a society based, in part, on usury.
Make no mistake, this is high-street robbery and amounts to usury in all but name!
The recondite topic of usury allowed Noonan to consider the problem of doctrinal development at greater length.
Any future credits and moneys loaned will be loaned at a rate of seven percent usury.
Although usury was theoretically forbidden, in practice it was allowed at rates of no more than ten percent per annum.
But where do you draw the line between this kind of usury and legitimate lending?
The loan scheme is in fact a case of state-sponsored usury, carried out at the expense of young people.
As Mongolian incomes tended to be seasonal there was ample opportunity for usury.
Fighting against usury and the persecution of debtors has a long religious history as well as a social justice lineage.
The superpower of the ancient world was influenced both by God and by the demons of materialism, violence, self-love, fraud, and usury.
This debt was created artificially, by usury, which technically is morally unlawful, which is therefore, lawfully a crime.
The chapter on usury will be of particular interest for those concerned about the church's current teaching on contraception.
He was litigious, speculated cannily on the property market, hoarded grain in times of shortage and may have practised usury.
I think an economy should be based on thrift, on taking care of things, not on theft, usury, seduction, waste, and ruin.
Yet for hundreds of years there were denunciations of usury and severe punishments inflicted for its practice.
Any moneys still due us under the old standard terms of twenty percent usury will be reduced to ten percent usury as a matter of good will.
The term was 29 years, and the loans were described as compere or purchases to evade the church's usury laws.
We need a new Prescription for America, a regulatory structure which puts a ceiling on drug company profits the same way credit laws establish what constitutes usury.
Of course that had to be paid, but when the amount of interest becomes usury, that is not fair, that is not just, and that's the actual situation.
There is certainly a need to ensure consumers that usury interest rates are not allowed in this country.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A careful reading of this letter does not reveal a positive approval of usury.
In 468, the people again withdrew to the Janiculum, demanding the remission of debts, and crying out against usury.
Charlemagne, in France, forbid the taking of usury either by priests or laity.
For if you reduce usury to one low rate, it will ease the common borrower, but the merchant will be to seek for money.
Thus we see that the divell is the planter, and the father of usury.
You have been lending money on usury too, and on a bad security.
A white-clad Oswal banker from Ajmir, his sins of usury new wiped out, asked him what he did.
I remember a cruel moneyed man in the country, that would say, The devil take this usury, it keeps us from forfeitures, of mortgages and bonds.
I guess Jim could take care of their silver and old usury notes as well as you could.
The one wrote a jeremiad about usury, and was called Jeremy Bentham.
She wanted to pay him with usury for his cool, hard disdain.
In the first treatise, Thomas Cajetan carefully argues for a use of bills of exchange on the money market that does not run afoul of the church's condemnation of usury.
For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added.
This is done, chiefly by suppressing, or at least keeping a strait hand, upon the devouring trades of usury, ingrossing great pasturages, and the like.
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