Legal Opinion
Browner v. District of Columbia
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided November 8, 1988No. 86-220, 86-221PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWELB, Associate Judge:
Where the real truth is a loan of money, the wit of man cannot find a shift to take it out of the statute.
Lord Mansfield in Floyer v. Edwards, 1 Cowp. 112, 114-115, 98 Eng.Rep. 995, 996 (1774).
I
Perhaps because so many of us have to live on credit and envy those who have the cash, it is fair to say that, rightly or wrongly, money lenders in general and usurers in particular have not been dealt with kindly in Holy Scripture, in literature, or in judicial rhetoric. The Bible warns us that “the borrower is servant to the lender,” 1 and instructs that
if you lend money to…
2Cases cited31 opinions
- Baldwin v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Webster v. FallSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- Muniz v. HoffmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- United States v. Alfred Esteban Azhocar, United States of America v. Alfred Esteban AzhocarCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1978
- District of Columbia v. ColtsSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
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3Cited by17 opinions
- In Re Baby Boy C.District of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1993
- Swisher v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1990
- Bethard v. District of ColumbiaDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1994
- Chen v. Bell-SmithDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2011
- Juergens v. Urban Title Services, Inc.District Court, District of Columbia · 2007
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