Usury and Usury Laws: A Juristic-economic Study of the Effects of State Statutory Maximums for Loan Charges Upon Lending Operations in the United StatesHoughton Mifflin, 1924 - 249 páginas |
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administrative tribunal Alfred Marshall amount arguments bankers bargain Bentham bond borrower Call Loan capital cent a month cent maximum cent per annum Chapter commercial consumptive loans contract court definition of usury eight per cent eliminate moral usury enacted excess fixed Forfeiture greater rate Hampshire interest laws interest rates Irving Fisher Jeremy Bentham legal rate legal usury legislators Liberty bonds license fee licensing official limit loan charges loan shark market rate Massachusetts maximums for interest ment money-lender mortgage old usury laws one-half per cent paid parties pawnbroker payment penalty for usury person pledge present prevent moral usury principal pure interest rate of interest Reginald H repealed Rhode Island risks Roscoe Pound SECTION seven per cent six per cent South Carolina statute Statute of Anne statutory maximums taking terest three and one-half transaction Turgot twelve per cent Uniform Small-Loan Law United unpaid balances
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Página 40 - And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him : yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
Página 140 - It is simply and exclusively a pricefixing law, confined to adult women (for we are not now considering the provisions relating to minors), who are legally as capable of contracting for themselves as men. It forbids two parties having lawful capacity — under penalties as to the employer — to freely contract with one another in respect of the price for which one shall render service to the other in a purely private employment where both are willing, perhaps anxious, to agree, even though the consequence...
Página 67 - And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die : and what profit shall this birthright do to me ? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day ; and he sware unto him : and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles ; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way : thus Esau despised his birthright.
Página 40 - Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury...
Página 212 - The taking, receiving, reserving, or charging a rate of interest greater than is allowed by the preceding section, when knowingly done, shall be deemed a forfeiture of the entire interest which the note, bill, or other evidence of debt carries with it, or which has been agreed to be paid thereon.
Página 223 - Commissioner, and shall contain the name and the address (both of the residence and place of business) of the applicant, and if the applicant is a co-partnership...
Página 222 - No person, co-partnership, association, or corporation shall engage in the business of making loans of money, credit, goods, or things in action...
Página 238 - ... for any loss or injury to the goods caused by his failure to exercise such care in regard to them as a reasonably careful owner of similar goods would exercise, but he shall not be liable, in the absence of an agreement to the contrary, for any loss or injury to the goods which could not have been avoided by the exercise of such care.
Página 67 - And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
Página 140 - A law forbidding work to continue beyond a given number of hours leaves the parties free to contract about wages and thereby equalize whatever additional burdens may be imposed upon the employer as a result of the restrictions as to hours, by an adjustment in respect of the amount of wages.