22.20. 20. Of Maritime Usury.
The greatness of maritime usury is founded on
two things: the danger of the sea, which makes it proper that those who
expose their specie should not do it without considerable advantage, and
the ease with which the borrower, by means of commerce, speedily
accomplishes a variety of great affairs. But usury, with respect to
landmen, not being founded on either of these two reasons, is either
prohibited by the legislators, or, what is more rational, reduced to
proper bounds.