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 injunction against usury, preferring to forbid moral usury to trying to mitigate the scriptural rules in this area...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

through drug trafficking, extortion, skimming of public contracts, and usury. The principal difference with the Mafia is in recruitment methods. The...

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...

property with the exception of nationalizing credit facilities to prevent usury. The Spanish Falange and its affiliates in Hispanic states around the world...

by outsiders, stating "on the one hand, it is associated negatively with usury and commercial calculation, and on the other, it carries positive connotations...

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...

Socialist Movement Volksparty Miscellaneous Abolition of Income Tax and Usury Party Ciskei National Independence Party Keep It Straight and Simple Party...

(1978), is a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that state anti-usury laws regulating interest rates cannot be enforced against nationally chartered...

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...

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...

forbade Christians to lend money while charging interest (a practice called usury, although the word later took on the meaning of charging excessive interest)...

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...

Archived from the original on 2021-05-13. Retrieved 2021-05-13. "History of Usury Prohibition - IslamiCity". www.islamicity.org. Archived from the original...

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...

The Financial Program and Construction Taxes and Taxation; Loans; Bonds; Usury; Moneylending 21 Domestic Loans and Government Credit Stock Markets and...

by the government. Although there was no banking in the Mauryan society, usury was customary. A significant amount of written records on slavery are found...

murabahah (cost-plus), and ijarah (leasing). Sharia prohibits riba, or usury, generally defined as interest paid on all loans of money (although some...

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...

continued to gamble. In November 1963, he was court-martialed for gambling, usury, possession of a personal firearm on base, and threatening another Marine...