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proportioned to risk i 129 Opinion of Grotius, (note.) 132 Maritime 130 Pawnbroking 130 INTOLERANCE, In every age and country 11, 59, 60 JEWS, Prohibited by Mosaic Law from taking Usury of brethren 16 Permitted to do so of strangers, (note.) 15 Transmitted precepts of Mosaic Law 16 Opinion of 'Michaelis, (note.) 18 First practised Usury in England 34 Their Scandalous Extortions 38 Banished for being Extortionate, A. D., 1290 39 Under penalty of being hanged 39 Not without Competitors 35, 40 Their opinion of Christian Usury, (note.) 36 Number who departed, (note.) .39 Loss to the Privy Purse, (note.) 39 Exposed the Licentious Clergy 42 Cruelty practised on 42 Massacred, (note.) 42 10 148 INDEX. Tun JUDGES, Express their abhorrence of Usury 45 Insert clanse to Disgrace Usury 49 This the last spark of prejudice in Pablic Acts 49 Opinion of the Twelve 12C JUSTICES IN EYRE, Their duty to discorer goods of Usurers 38 Dealt with Usurers as required by Statute 40 Clergy complain „ „_ . 40 LAND OWNERS, Opposed to Abolition of Usury Laws 132 LAW OF DOMICIL, Defined 100 A person incompetent to contract by, generally deemed in- competent everywhere 102 Exception „ 103 LAW OF ENGLAND, Negotiable paper in innocent hands „ 51 Notes, &c., given for Usurious consideration not void 53 Notes, &e., payable within twelve months subject to contract.. 53 Adopted in the Colonies 64, 68 LAW OF NATIONS, What 92, 94 The growth of modem times 92 Importance of International Law 92, efceeq. Of special importance in United States 93 The three maxims on which it is founded 94, 95 " stated by Hubems 96 Exclusive Sovereignty within ite own limits 94 Cannot bind out of its own territory 94 LEGALIZED USURY, Bottomry and Respondentia Bonds 130 Pavrabroking 130 Exorbitant rates allowed to Pawnbrokers, {note.) 130 Pennsylvania — geven^-two per cent., {note.) _ 130 LEGISLATORS, Not eompet<int to make Contracts by Law _ 124 LEGISLATURE, The first that sat in America, (note.) 69 LEX LOOI, Exooptions to gonoral prinoiples 109 l)ay» (if graoo on li'oroign Bills.. .., 109 Rulo etatod 109, 110, 121 LOOKK, (.loiiNidors UHiiry Lnws