North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 12Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge Wells and Lilly, 1821 Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 213
... laws regulating the interest of money ; laws of which the uselessness is already acknowledged by the most practical and judicious statesmen . It is surprising that an age so discern- ing as the present , and in general so well ...
... laws regulating the interest of money ; laws of which the uselessness is already acknowledged by the most practical and judicious statesmen . It is surprising that an age so discern- ing as the present , and in general so well ...
Page 214
... laws are necessary ; and virtue is not aided by casting an indiscrimi- nate legal stigma on what is made vicious only by the posi tive law . But there is another important remark , in respect to the laws against usury , that instead of ...
... laws are necessary ; and virtue is not aided by casting an indiscrimi- nate legal stigma on what is made vicious only by the posi tive law . But there is another important remark , in respect to the laws against usury , that instead of ...
Page 215
... law ; but if it exceeds those bounds , it is then oppres- sive usury ; and though the municipal laws may give it impu- nity , they never can make it just . This is the doctrine of Grotius , cited and approved by Blackstone . Men must ...
... law ; but if it exceeds those bounds , it is then oppres- sive usury ; and though the municipal laws may give it impu- nity , they never can make it just . This is the doctrine of Grotius , cited and approved by Blackstone . Men must ...
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