| Autor: |
Swain, Warren, Fairweather, Karen |
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law&history; 2023, Vol. 10 Issue 1, p82-109, 28p |
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Economic growth in the early Australian colony was fuelled by credit. The boom ended in a slump in the 1840s. Questions that started to be raised about how credit should be regulated in the colony were also part of a much older story. In England, the prohibitions on usury were eroded but not completely abolished until 1854. The application of the English usury laws in the colony was controversial. Some favoured regulating interest rates, while others saw this as likely to discourage investment. Usury became caught up in a debate about the extent to which English law ought to apply in the different conditions of the colony of New South Wales. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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