Sentence examples for without usury from inspiring English sources
Without usury limits, the financial services sector ballooned.
But in its obscure Marquette decision, in 1978, the Supreme Court decided that credit-card companies, based in states without usury laws, could charge whatever they desired to customers in any states, a decision effectively rendering all state usury limitations useless.
The company focuses on banking services, the purchase and sale of properties, leasing, project construction for its own account as well as for third parties and other trading activities without practicing usury.
Our economic system, which has brought us widespread affluence and wellbeing over recent decades, is unthinkable without the motor of usury.
As the system shudders, it is wondrous to contemplate its fairytale origins in the Medici bank, which devised ways to provide international credit and play the foreign exchanges without falling foul of medieval usury laws.
How does one put that kind of money to work without breaking the rule on usury, given how ubiquitous interest is?
The creditor who has given the loan in good conscience and without hope of profit has not committed usury, so he has "a right over the commune" that he can sell licitly.
Usury laws were set aside.
The Koran vehemently forbids usury.
In the Middle Ages, when usury laws banned lenders from charging interest, savvy merchants lent in one currency and took repayment in another, thereby profiting without incurring the wrath of the Catholic Church.
