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nydus/The History of UsuryPublic

This volume provides a historical overview of usury from the Mosaic period through the Roman era and into the nineteenth century. It examines the policy of usury laws, their impact on commerce, and the conflict of legal principles across different states and countries.

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Chapter V.

their own government, unless they are repugnant to its policy, or prejudicial to its interests.^ Or as Huberus states them, in his three axioms :

  1. That the laws of every empire have force, only, within the limits of its own government, and bind all who are subjects thereof, but not beyond those limits. 2. That all persons who are found within the limits of a government, whether their residence is permanent or temporary, are to be deemed subjects thereof. 3. That the rulers of every empire, from comity, admit, that the laws of every people, in force within its own limits, ought to have the same force everywhere, so far as they do not prejudice the power or' rights of other governments, or of their citizens.' Hertius,' however, and other continental writers.

' Story, Conf. Laws, p. 47. ' " (1) Leges cnjusque imperii vim habent intra tenninos ejusdem reipublicae, omnesque ei subjectoa obligant, nee ultra. (2) Pro snbjectis imperio habendi sunt omnes,

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