usance
Example Sentences
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But it has been a tiresome business, with its investigation of titles and rights of usance, and court copyhold fines, and—Bother the business, it has taken up no end of time.
From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn
Everything in it, tolerable or intolerable, will have but one use; and that use what our ancestors used to call usance or usury.
From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
He it was who prepared their bonds and contracts, and placed out their ill-gotten gains at exorbitant usance.
From The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth
I have not wanted good words, and exceeding kind and regardful usance.
From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt
It means a certain time fixed by custom as between any two places, and the period covered by a usance will therefore depend on the places of drawing and payment.
From The Gentleman's Model Letter-writer A Complete Guide to Correspondence on All Subjects, with Commercial Forms by Anonymous
