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...ginal common law before William the Conquer would not allow enforcement of usury in court. If you returned to that all paper money would become useless. All ...

...in the bank of the Forrest floor generations before. None of that involved usury nor greed nor envy. Even the ant, who is no [[sluggard]], in his colony see ...

Loans of indebtedness and usury sometimes took advantage of this more permanent form. Record keeping solemn ...

...eturning his gifts; otherwise they become debts owing to him. It is a base usury to regard a benefit as an investment. Whatever may have been the result of ...not bestowal of benefits, but usury. Now the gods have nothing to do with usury; it follows, therefore, that they cannot be liberal; for if the only reason ...

Usury is odious in law. ...