 | William Paley - 1811 - 412 pages
...prohibited (and consequently under that rate allowed), with this sage provision: That this statute shall not be construed or expounded to allow the practice of usury in point of religion or conscience. thought to be binding upon any but the commonwealth of Israel. This interpretation is confirmed, I... | |
 | John Prince Smith - 1813 - 562 pages
...taken beyond acertainrate and consequently allowed it under that rate, adds that this statute shall not be construed or expounded to allow the practice of usury in point of religion or conscience.* JereniyBenthama\so,in his able defence of usury, is very facetious on the passage usually quoted from... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1816 - 606 pages
...o{ interest to be taken (and consequently allowed it under that rate), " that this statute shall not be construed or expounded to allow the practice of usury in point of religion or conscience.''' Jeremy Bentham,. in his able defence of usury, is very facetious on the passage usually quoted from... | |
 | Sir Robert Buckley Comyn - 1817 - 326 pages
...1625, and so to the end of the first session of parliament then next following: Provided, that no words in this law contained, shall be construed or expounded...practice of usury, in point of religion or conscience. [Made perpetual by 3 Car. ic 4. s. 5.] 265 N° VIII. 12 Car. II. c. 13. • An Act Jur restraining... | |
 | 1817 - 436 pages
...statute, which merits attention. The provUo s that "the statute shall not be construed or ex" pounded to allow the practice of usury in point •' of religion or conscience." Such was the influ'•' ence of prejudice sanctioned by time. Thus even in the 17lh century, the parliament... | |
 | South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals, David James McCord - 1823 - 576 pages
...of James 1st. the statute was made to end with a proviso, that no words in the law contained, should be construed or expounded to allow the practice of usury, in point of religion or conscience. But from the rcigu of Henry, the Sth, in England, and now, throughout the civilized world, interest... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1824 - 626 pages
...This act has an express saving of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction. See § 9. 1 Hagg. R. 465. note. expounded to allow the practice of usury in point of religion or conscience). And by the 12 An. st. 2. c. 16. None shall take above 51. per cent, on pain of treble value of the... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 578 pages
...(and consequently under that rate allowed), with this sage provision': That this statute shall not be construed or expounded to allow the practice of usury in point of religion or co*sc'unce. This prohibition is now generally understood to have been intended for the Jews alone,... | |
 | Henry Soames - 1827 - 782 pages
...was fixed at eight per cent. with a proviso, that the statute assigning this limitation *' shall not be construed or expounded to allow the practice of usury in point of religion or conscience." The act of Elizabeth rendered such as might exceed the limitation liable to ecclesiastical censures. A... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 636 pages
...and the restraint of it unto the sum therein established, it was provided,' that no words in this act contained shall be construed or expounded to allow the practice of usury in point of religion and conscience.' And why did not the supreme magistrate in that law determine and bind the consciences... | |
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man can not sell time," that time is not a human possession, but something which is given by God alone : he declared, " Time was not of your gift to your neighbour, but of God's gift to you both." In the Parliament of the period, we find strong assertions... 
