A Topic of Moral Theology
Usury and the titles to interest
Interest on money lent; the extrinsic titles; the modern practice and the Church's teaching.
The works themselves ask 48 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Usury · Interest · Interest-taking · Onerous loan · Money · Increase (Auctarium) · Loan for consumption (mutuum) · Damage (Damnum) · *Montes pietatis* · Ceasing profit (Lucrum Cessans) · Penalty · Savings Banks (Arcae parcimoniae) · Actions ("Shares") · Anatocism · Banks (Mensae Nummulariorum) · Cassel · Conventional penalty (Poena conventionalis) · Custom · Danger of sin · Danger of the principal (Periculum sortis) · Emerging damage · Fungible · Funk, F. X. · Increase in a mutuum
In the manuals
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Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, Part Second. On the Precep…, Book Sixth. On the Seventh…, Chapter Fourth. On Contracts, Question First. On Contrac…, Article Fourth. On Mutuum, Section 3. On Interest and Usury, nn. 582, 583 & 584 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. II, Part Second. On the Precep…, Book Sixth. On the Seventh…, Chapter Fourth. On Contracts, Question First. On Contrac…, Article Fourth. On Mutuum, Section 4. On the Prohibition of Usury, nn. 585 & 586 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries
Vol. I, Bk. VII, Pt. II, Chapter IV. Mutuum and Usury, nn. 1 & 2 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)
Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 4. The Vices Opposed …, Usury, n. 2136 — Usury. Usury.—The sin of usury is committed in two ways. (a) Usury in the strict sense is the taking of interest by reason of intrinsic title (i.e., on account of the use) for money or other fungible loaned on condition that it… Read in context →
Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, On the Seventh and Tenth P…, X. On Mutuum, nn. 1094–1111 (18 passages)
Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.
Vol. I, Treatise On Contracts, Second Part. On Contracts …, Sect. I, Ch. VI, Article III. On Titles Excusing from Usury, nn. ¶1, ¶2, 856, 857, 858, 859, 860, 861, 862, 863, 864, 865, 866, 867, 868, 869, 870, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 876, 877 & 878 (88 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, Treatise On Contracts, Second Part. On Contracts …, Sect. I, Ch. VI, Art. III, Appendix. On Montes Pietatis, nn. 879 & 880 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. III, Contracts, and the Obligat…, On the Virtue of Justice (…, Part II — Chapter II: On Contracts in Particular, nn. 864–906 (43 passages)
A Handbook of Moral Theology (Koch–Preuss)
Vol. V, Pt. I, Ch. V, Section 5: The So-Called Onerous Contracts, nn. ¶70–¶87 (18 passages)
Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae
Vol. I, Pt. II, Sect. II, Tr. VII, Diss. IV, Ch. II, Art. VII, § 3, OR ON INTEREST TO BE PERCEIVED FROM A LOAN FOR CONSUMPTION, nn. ¶1, ¶1107, ¶1108, ¶1109, ¶1110, ¶1111 & ¶1112 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)
Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium
Vol. I, TREATISE ON CONTRACTS, SECOND PART: ON CONTRACTS …, Ch. VI, ARTICLE III: ON TITLES EXCUSING FROM USURY, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶935, ¶936, ¶3, ¶937, ¶4, ¶938, ¶939, ¶5, ¶940, ¶941, ¶942, ¶943, ¶944, ¶945, ¶946, ¶947 & ¶948 (19 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, TREATISE ON CONTRACTS, SECOND PART: ON CONTRACTS …, LITTLE APPENDIX: ON MOUNTS…, PUBLIC TABLES OF BANKERS, AND SHARES GENERALLY, nn. ¶1, ¶949, ¶950, ¶2, ¶951, ¶952, ¶3, ¶953, ¶4 & ¶5 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Third Part: Concerning Com…, Sect. C, Ch. IV, Question One: On the Contr…, Article II: On Mutuum, nn. 576, 577, 578, 579, 580, 581, 582 & 583 (78 passages — hover a number to read it)
Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium
Diss. IV, Chapter IV — On the danger of losing the principal. Certain lax opinions are refuted. The chapter *Naviganti* is set forth in its true sense, the comments of the younger authors being rejected, nn. I–XXI (21 passages)
Diss. IV, Chapter V — On emerging loss, nn. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII & VIII (8 passages — hover a number to read it)
Diss. IV, Chapter VI — On ceasing gain, and its conditions, nn. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, I, II, III & IV (13 passages — hover a number to read it)
Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues
Tr. II, Disputation V: On Buying a…, Question VIII: Whether the contracts called stocolia and barocolia in Italian, and mohatra in Spanish, are lawful, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 (13 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tr. II, Disputation V: On Buying a…, Question XIII: Whether a sale with a pact of repurchase is lawful, nn. 1–19 (19 passages)
Tr. II, Disputation VI: On the Loa…, Question I: What a loan and usury are, and why usury is a sin, nn. 1–38 (38 passages)
Tr. II, Disputation VI: On the Loa…, Question II: Whether it is usury to lend so that, when I have need, you lend back to me, or buy from me at a just price, nn. 1–14 (14 passages)
Tr. II, Disputation VI: On the Loa…, Question III: Whether it is lawful to lend on the pact that the borrower confer an office or an ecclesiastical benefice, nn. 1, 2 & 3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tr. II, Disputation VI: On the Loa…, Question IV: Whether it is usury to receive beyond the principal any other emolument whatever besides money, nn. 1–15 (15 passages)
Tr. II, Disputation VI: On the Loa…, Question V: Whether the lender can receive anything on account of risk and ceasing profit, and what, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tr. II, Disputation VI: On the Loa…, Question VI: Whether it is lawful to lend wheat, or something else, with the pact that it be restored in the same measure, even if the price has risen at the time of restitution, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tr. II, Disputation VI: On the Loa…, Question VII: Whether, and how, gain acquired from usury is to be restored, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 (13 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tr. II, Disputation VI: On the Loa…, Question VIII: Whether it is lawful to seek a loan from a usurer, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Tr. II, Disputation IX: On the Con…, Question III: Whether a contract by which, the capital being secured, a certain fixed gain is received each year is lawful, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 (13 passages — hover a number to read it)
Cases of Conscience for English-Speaking Countries, Volume I
Slater, Cases I, Contracts, Case 17. Usury, nn. ¶8, ¶9, ¶10 & ¶11 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law
Pt. III, Ch. V, Section V. Of Usury, nn. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)
Questions of Moral Theology
Slater, Questions, Liberalism and Usury, nn. ¶147, ¶148, ¶149, ¶150, ¶151, ¶153, ¶154, ¶155, ¶156, ¶158, ¶159, ¶160, ¶162, ¶163, ¶164, ¶165, ¶166, ¶167, ¶169, ¶170, ¶171, ¶172, ¶173, ¶174, ¶175, ¶176, ¶177, ¶178, ¶179 & ¶180 (30 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Usury and Interest — Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · 1917 Code of Canon Law · Decretum of Gratian · Decretals of Gregory IX · Liber Sextus — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)