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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all, which is usury. St Thomas quotes Aristotle as saying that "to live by usury is exceedingly unnatural". Islam likewise condemns usury but allowed commerce...
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Loans and interest in Judaism (redirect from Usury in Jewish Law)
to prevent evasion of the scriptural injunction against usury, preferring to forbid moral usury to trying to mitigate the scriptural rules in this area...
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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"...
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The Abolition of Income Tax and Usury Party was a South African political party founded in 1994. Its principal objective was monetary reform, which it...
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Economic antisemitism (redirect from Jewish 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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Vix pervenit (redirect from Vix Pervenit: On Usury and Other Dishonest Profit)
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...
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Thomas Aquinas (section Usury)
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...
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Bernardino of Siena (section On Contracts and Usury)
sorcery/witchcraft, sodomy (chiefly among homosexual males), Jews, Romani "Gypsies", usury, and the like. Bernardino was canonised by Pope Nicholas V in 1450 and is...
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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...
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Marquette National Bank of Minneapolis v. First of Omaha Service Corp. (section U.S. banking system and anti-usury laws)
(1978), is a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that state anti-usury laws regulating interest rates cannot be enforced against nationally chartered...
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in a derogatory sense, as Lombard banking was associated with the sin of usury. Lombard lenders became active throughout Western Europe in the 13th and...
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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...
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Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (section Effect on usury law)
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...
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Treatise on Usury and his Sermon on Trade and Usury and criticized clerics of the Catholic Church for violating the spirit if not the letter of usury laws....
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through drug trafficking, extortion, skimming of public contracts, and usury. The principal difference with the Mafia is in recruitment methods. The...
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of Sa'd and killed by Hudhail. And the usury of the pre-Islamic period is abolished, and the first of our usury I abolish is that of 'Abbas b. 'Abd al-Muttalib...
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Islamic banking and finance (section Usury in Islam)
murabahah (cost-plus), and ijarah (leasing). Sharia prohibits riba, or usury, generally defined as interest paid on all loans of money (although some...
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Socialist Movement Volksparty Miscellaneous Abolition of Income Tax and Usury Party Ciskei National Independence Party Keep It Straight and Simple Party...
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held on charges including suspicion of belonging to a mafia organisation, usury and extortion. They had bribed a local official who provided them with information...
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equally for murder, as for less severe faults as adultery, perjury and usury, and also tried to apply rigid Biblical standards to the social order of...
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bought and leased out houses. He was twice taken to court for violating the usury laws that prohibited charging interest higher than the legal limit of 10...
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property with the exception of nationalizing credit facilities to prevent usury. The Spanish Falange and its affiliates in Hispanic states around the world...
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World War I, Pound blamed the war on finance capitalism, which he called "usury". He moved to Italy in 1924 and through the 1930s and 1940s promoted an...
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continued to operate in some southern states after World War II because the usury rate was set so low that licensed personal finance companies could not do...
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Indian famine of 1899–1900 (section Usury)
The Indian famine of 1899–1900 began with the failure of the summer monsoons in 1899 over Western and Central India and, during the next year, affected...
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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...
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matters of marriage, divorce, and inheritance. A number of practices, such as usury and gambling, are prohibited. The Quran is one of the fundamental sources...
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Archived from the original on 2021-05-13. Retrieved 2021-05-13. "History of Usury Prohibition - IslamiCity". www.islamicity.org. Archived from the original...
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.."; Usury is mentioned as one of the two crimes of which the Jews are accused: "We find the said Jews, by means of great and unbearable usury, to devour...
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