Usury (/ˈjuːʒəri/) is the practice of charging interest on loans. In many historical societies including ancient Christian, Jewish, and Islamic societies...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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