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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A charge against him by the Privy Seal for usury was apparently avoided by means of a £12,000 bribe.
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First, usury is not intrinsically wrong in the way that murder, adultery or theft are wrong.
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He realises that Access make money through usury , yet he felt that 25 percent a month was going the pace a bit.
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If the biblical fates go against him, Herluin will take all the vexation and shame out on Tutilo, with usury .
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In addition to the tithing system and the gleaning laws, redistribution is also achieved through regulating the capital market by prohibiting usury .
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In spite of ecclesiastical prohibitions on usury , the Lancastrians and their predecessors had certainly borrowed at interest, often surreptitiously.
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The church condemns usury and the loaning of money at high interest.
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This was because of the element of usury involved.