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for no more than is legally due. Is not this a Confession that the reservation was of more?
The bond wd be void even tho’ the Reservation were of so much if requested, & the Request were never made.
1 Hawkins P. C. 246.
It is my business to shew that the Contr: was usurious at the time when it was made.
It is now universally settled that let the commencemt of the Transaction be what it may, if it ends in a loan [which] is usurious it is within the Statute.
Usury (says Hawkins) in a large