Bernard J Meislin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4193808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard J Meislin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard J |
| FAMILY NAME | Meislin |
| SIGNATURE | MEISLIN B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York City Bar Association |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Parallels between Talmudic and New York Usury Laws
The two jurisdictions with the greatest volume and complexity of laws dealing with usury are the United States and Israel. England, the wellspring of our common law, and one of present-day Israel's legal fonts, did away with all regulation of interest over a century ago. All of continental Europe contains only two or three jurisdictions which apply legal limits to interest on loans. The communist countries present a special situation since privat…
Backgrounds of the Biblical Law against Usury
The Hebrew Bible contains a thrice repeated prohibition against the taking of interest on loans. For many centuries, these injunctions exerted a profound influence on the life and thought of the Western World. However, they have never been significantly observed or consistently enforced in their original, categorical terms. From an absolute prohibition, which treated all interest (of any kind, in any amount) as usurious, we have developed, throug…
Backgrounds of the Biblical Law against Usury
The Hebrew Bible contains a thrice repeated prohibition against the taking of interest on loans. For many centuries, these injunctions exerted a profound influence on the life and thought of the Western World. However, they have never been significantly observed or consistently enforced in their original, categorical terms. From an absolute prohibition, which treated all interest (of any kind, in any amount) as usurious, we have developed, throug…
Parallels between Talmudic and New York Usury Laws
The two jurisdictions with the greatest volume and complexity of laws dealing with usury are the United States and Israel. England, the wellspring of our common law, and one of present-day Israel's legal fonts, did away with all regulation of interest over a century ago. All of continental Europe contains only two or three jurisdictions which apply legal limits to interest on loans. The communist countries present a special situation since privat…
Backgrounds of the Biblical Law against Usury
The Hebrew Bible contains a thrice repeated prohibition against the taking of interest on loans. For many centuries, these injunctions exerted a profound influence on the life and thought of the Western World. However, they have never been significantly observed or consistently enforced in their original, categorical terms. From an absolute prohibition, which treated all interest (of any kind, in any amount) as usurious, we have developed, throug…
Parallels between Talmudic and New York Usury Laws
The two jurisdictions with the greatest volume and complexity of laws dealing with usury are the United States and Israel. England, the wellspring of our common law, and one of present-day Israel's legal fonts, did away with all regulation of interest over a century ago. All of continental Europe contains only two or three jurisdictions which apply legal limits to interest on loans. The communist countries present a special situation since privat…
Islam (2 works) · Judaism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Usury (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Hebrew (1 work) · History (1 work)