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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"...
- 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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Aquinas also
wrote extensively on
usury, that is, the
lending of
money with interest. He
condemned its practice: "to take
usury for
money lent is
unjust in...
- 1, 1745,
which condemned the
practice of
charging interest on
loans as
usury.
Because the
encyclical was
addressed to the
bishops of Italy, it is generally...
- The
Abolition of
Income Tax and
Usury Party was a
South African political party founded in 1994. Its prin****l
objective was
monetary reform,
which it...
- 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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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...
