Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Usury
n. 1. Historically, the lending of money with interest. 2. Today, the charging of an illegal rate of interest. 3. An illegally high rate of interest. - usurious (yoo-zhuuree-as), adj. - usurer (yoo-zhar-ar), n.
usury law
A law that prohibits moneylenders from charging illegally high interest rates.