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
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
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
They wanted me, forsooth, To lend you, at the lawful rate of usance, For the state's needs.
From The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems by Various
Usance between London and Hamburgh is two months, Venice is three months; and double usance, or two usance, is double that time.
From The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Daniel Defoe
