Law
This law criminalises usury, treating a non-commercial loan carrying interest above 9% as a usurious debt. It imposes fines and prison terms on the lender, doubles the penalty for repeat offences, and provides for publication of the judgment and referral of usury rulings to the public prosecutor.
This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1939. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.
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