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Interest paid on borrowed money.

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Usage examples (27)
  • La usura pasó de estar considerada como un pecado a ser un instrumento económico de eficacia y redistribución indispensable.
  • Lambertini, R. (2003), "L'economia e la sua etica: la 'quaestio' di Gregorio da Rimini su debito ed usura," in Gregorio da Rimini.
  • De usura, printed in 1508 and again in 1622 (see below, section 6), and a treatise on the four cardinal virtues, De quatuor virtutibus cardinalibus.
  • The second term, usurarius, is directly related to usura, interest; and its application to Ramus was no doubt intended as a criticism, indicating that he was strutting...
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