usance
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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
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 Hall, Lesslie
The customer himself who buys cotton in Bombay, or wherever it may be, acts according to the custom there to draw a bill to a certain usance.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur
And two usance is two months; reckoning not from the acceptance of the bill, but from the date of it.
From The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Defoe, Daniel
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 Fenn, George Manville
