Pawnshop was one of the most important financial institutions in Chinese countryside, Compared with other credit, it's interest was lower, thus it belonged to temperate usury.

典当是中国农村重要的金融机关，与其它借贷相比，利息较低，属于温和的高利贷。

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The oil magnate was charged with being guilty of usury.

这个石油大亨被指控犯有放高利贷罪。

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Yet even with the tax break, Texarkana, Arkansas, still cannot compete with Texas because of the usury law.

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Small-time moneylenders that competed with the church, were often denounced for usury.

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Further, the California usury law is one of the strictest of its kind in the nation, with any annual interest rate exceeding 10% deemed usurious.

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