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1792. First Sit. Short Notes.
First Sittings. [Friday] Feb. 17.
Mr. Burroughs. Advocate for Mr. Hardwick the Complainant in Equity.
I shall consider first
First, Whether it is a loan and as such usurious.
In the case already cited, Lord Mansfield says, if it is in truth a Loan, the Wit of Man can not invent a Mode to get out of the Statutes of Usury, but now in the present Case, greater ingenuity than Lord Mansfield’s has contrived a Mode to
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