Noun:

கடும் வட்டி வாங்குதல்,

usury's Usage Examples:

They perform a useful function in protecting their clients from the cruel usury which prevails, especially in the south.

They held usury up to detestation, and practically made no distinction between interest on equitable moderate terms and what we now term usurious exactions.

Restrictions on their occupations were everywhere common, and as the Church forbade Christians to engage in usury, this was the only trade open to the Jews.

But, as something can everywhere be made by the use of money, something ought everywhere to be paid for the use of it," and will in fact be paid for it; and the prohibition will only heighten the evil of usury by increasing the risk to the lender.

"Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury.

In the United States of America the law relating to the lending of money on usury varies in the different states.

In 1872 a correspondent had remonstrated with him in vain as to taking "usury," i.

impolicy of usury laws.

MONEY-LENDING, the lending of money on usury.

The enslavement of creditors, overwhelmed with usury in consequence of losses by hostile raids or their own absence on military service, led to the secession to the Mons Sacer (493 B.

At the present day, "usury," if used in the old sense of the term, would embrace a multitude of modes of receiving interest upon capital to which not the slightest moral taint is attached.

Despite the queens express prohibition, the insurrectionary assembly of the Chambre Saint Louis criticized the whole financial system, founded as it was upon usury, claimed the right of voting taxes, respect for individual liberty, and the suppression of the intendants, who were a menace to the new bureaucratic feudalism.

Synonyms:

loaning, lending,

Antonyms:

None