usury

To think you could be put to death for usury once.

But usury would not begin for us under one hundred percentage.

"The effect was to gut every state law on usury", he says.

Previously usury had been seen as a lack of charity.

At most, it should not exceed the state's usury ceiling.

In other contexts that would be called usury and is generally illegal.

He is said to have suppressed usury in the city during his term of office as mayor.

It is also often difficult to observe Islamic rules against usury.

That is why I have enthusiastically supported the report, particularly the point on usury.

Usury grew during the period, and few cases were prosecuted by the authorities.

Private money lenders must comply with state and federal usury laws.

If the interest that a person must pay is too high, this is called usury.

He is known also as a writer on usury.

The natural rate of rent is related to his theories on usury.

Throughout the depression from 1873-78, he said that usury was the foremost political problem of the day.

Usury is illegal in many parts of the world.

He hated usury, and the practice of charging interest on loans.

To those around him the saint said, "This is the blood of the poor squeezed from them by usury."

Well of course there are no meaningful usury laws in this desperate country.

It was evident that usury meant exploitation of the poor.

Or consider the attitude of the Church in the matter of usury.

Today, the word usury means lending money at excessively high rates of interest.

This cannot be done, except you introduce two several sorts of usury, a less and a greater.

This is a kind of usury, banker, that I do not understand."

Usury (lending money with interest) was illegal for Christians to practice.