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Usury (/ˈjuːʒəri/) is the
practice of
making loans that are seen as
unfairly enriching the lender. The term may be used in a
moral sense—condemning taking...
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Usury Act 1660 was an Act of the
Parliament of
England (12 Cha. 2. c. 13) with the long
title "An Act for
restraining the
taking of
Excessive Usury"...
- to
prevent evasion of the
scriptural ****ction
against usury,
preferring to
forbid moral usury to
trying to
mitigate the
scriptural rules in this area...
- Surfeited; and, for all his wits, As
meagre as the tally-board, On
which his
usuries are scored. — Joseph Campbell, The
Gombeen Man
While the
phrase "gombeen...
- history,
stereotypes of Jews as
being connected to greed, money-lending and
usury have
stoked anti-Jewish
sentiments and still, to a
large extent, influence...
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development of
Islamic banking.
Islam prohibits riba,
usually translated as
usury,
which refers to any
unfair gain in
trade and is most
commonly used to mean...
- The
League Against Usury (Romanian: Liga
contra Cametei, LCC, or Liga împotriva Cametei,
sometimes shortened to Liga Cametei, "
Usury League") was a single-issue...
- interest,
since such
activities were
equated with the sin of
usury.
Jewish law
disallowed usury among Jews, but not when the
borrower was Gentile. The Jewish...
- As
Catholic doctrine held that
money lending for
interest was the sin of
usury, Jews
dominated this activity. The
earliest immigrants spoke Judeo-French...
- to
justify interest, but
ancient Jewish religious prohibitions against usury (נשך NeSheKh)
represented a "different view". The
first written evidence...
