usance
Example Sentences
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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
Be warned that unless the 8 shillings and the usance thereof be forthcoming, the town-crier shall notify the sale of the sundry articles named.
From Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof by Franklin H. (Franklin Harvey) Head
Item, I have made you over by exchange with Benynge Decasonn, Lombard, 180 nobles sterling, payable at usance.
From Medieval People by Eileen Edna Power
I heard that there followed hard on the jewels Two braces of stallions of striking resemblance, 20 Dappled and yellow; he granted him usance Of horses and treasures.
From Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem by Lesslie Hall
The usance of wealth and the service of laborers at the moment rendered constitute forms of income.
From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Frank Albert Fetter
