Haines v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• “A debt, to be usurious, must be so in the beginning. It cannot be made so by subsequent events----Where the debtor, by a punctual payment ofthe debt, may thus relieve himself and avoid the payment of the illegal interest stipulated for, it is not usury.”

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