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Usury (/ˈjuːʒəri/) is the
practice of
making unethical or
immoral loans that
unfairly enrich the lender. The term may be used in a
moral sense—condemning...
- 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...
- to
prevent evasion of the
scriptural ****ction
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"...
- 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...
- 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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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...
- 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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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....
- 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...
