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 1 24|               not given his money upon usury," and in lending ~money
 2 24|               one be found to ~receive usury, whether he accomplish it
 3 24|                If anyone shall receive usury or 150 per cent. he shall
 4 24|              only these two species of usury, if we ~bear in mind the
 5 24|            manifest that every kind of usury is forbidden to clerics
 6 24|                 any particular kind of usury, but generally the penalty
 7 24|               after this decree taking usury" or ~thinking out any other
 8 25|                            EXCURSUS ON USURY.~ ~The famous canonist Van
 9 25|             canonist Van Espen defines usury thus: "Usura definitur ~
10 25|          defend the proposition that, "Usury is forbidden by natural,
11 25|        contained in the decalogue; but usury ~is prohibited in the decalogue,
12 25|               goods is prohibited; but usury is an ~unlawful, etc." For
13 25|         unlawful, etc." For a proof of usury's being contrary to divine
14 25|              assertion is proved thus. Usury is forbidden by ~human law:
15 25|  ecclesiastical rank, clerics who took usury; and the ~same thing is
16 25|               money was looked upon as usury, and its ~reception was
17 25|                between "interest" and "usury," and was the first to ~
18 25|            Christian Antiquities(s. v. Usury).~ ~Although the conditions
19 25|       condemnation of ~the practice of usury. Among those belonging to
20 25|            Gregory of ~Nyssa says that usury, unlike theft, the desecration
21 25|            that in the Gallican church usury was recognised as lawful ~
22 31|               or religious who lend on usury should be cast from their ~
23 31| incompatibility of temper"].CANON LII.~Usury and the base seeking of