| Abstrakt: |
The article describes the jurisprudential changes that broke the alignment of the ideal of freedom of contract and the view that contract law is facilitative, as well as the adaptation of the contract law doctrines of illegality and severance after the criminalization of usury. Topics discussed include civil effects of the criminalization of usury, willingness by courts to allow lenders to obtain some interest on the money lent, notional severance, and remedial discretion vested in judges, |
