Translation for 'usury' from English to Slovak

usury

úžera {f}

úžerníctvo {n}

• The subject of usury is crucial to Brome's "The Damoiselle", and links the play to a group of anti-usury plays that appeared in the 1630s.
• By the 18th century, usury was more often treated as a metaphor than a crime in itself, so Jeremy Bentham's "Defence of Usury" was not as shocking as it would have appeared two centuries earlier.
• Javadi Amoli has repeatedly protested the usury of some banking activities under the guise of Islamic banking.
• Gentile debtors may have been quick to lay charges of usury against Jewish moneylenders charging even nominal interest or fees.
• No other papal solemn pronouncement than "Vix pervenit" touches the subject of usury, although in a 1999 speech John Paul II qualified usury as a "grave social plague".

• This effect may be termed usury, while the term "usury" in other contexts refers only to an excessive rate of interest, in excess of a reasonable profit for the risk accepted.
• Usury – the accumulation of interest on loan principal – is prohibited by the texts of some major religions.
• In 1421 Abbot was one of a number of City merchants charged with usury (lending money for profit) at an extraordinary series of trials in London.
• This book deals with usury, which is a matter that was very discussed by the medieval Canon law.
• Islamic teachings encourage trading (and condemn usury or interest).

• In April 2004, the Ursinos approached a politician to try to obtain European Union funding, and set up a million dollar usury ring.
• Riba is an Arabic word meaning usury.
• Some of the causes of the depression that Posner cites are the lack of enforceable usury laws, which would discourage risky loans, requiring banks and financial institutions to "disclose the "full" compensation of all senior executives", backloading of compensation, increasing marginal income tax rates on the highest incomes, and usury laws to discourage risky loans.
• In 1230, the King forbade all forms of usury, defined at the time as any taking of interest and therefore covering most banking activities.
• This dissertation seemed to authorize usury and was therefore censured by a number of bishops [...].