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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...
- to
prevent evasion of the
scriptural ****ction
against usury,
preferring to
forbid moral usury to
trying to
mitigate the
scriptural rules in this area...
- to
justify interest, but
ancient Jewish religious prohibitions against usury (נשך NeSheKh)
represented a "different view". The
first written evidence...
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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"...
- The
League Against Usury (Romanian: Liga
contra Cametei, LCC, or Liga împotriva Cametei,
sometimes shortened to Liga Cametei, "
Usury League") was a single-issue...
- away with all
usury limits for Arkansas-based
banks since Wells Fargo's main bank
charter is
based in
South Dakota,
which repealed its
usury laws many years...
- sorcery/witchcraft,
sodomy (chiefly
among homo****ual males), Jews,
Romani "Gypsies",
usury, and the like.
Bernardino was
canonised by Pope
Nicholas V in 1450 and is...
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racketeering and blackmail. Its most
important branch was the
Office to
Combat Usury and Profiteering. It also ran its own prison.
Group 13 vied for control...
- 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...
- the
practice of
usury.
Since the time of the
Norman Conquest, Jews had been
filling a
small but
vital role in the
English economy.
Usury by
Christians was...
