ockerer
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]ockerer (plural ockerers)
- (obsolete, Scotland, especially law) A usurer.
- 1769, Statute Law of Scotland Abridged. With Historical Notes, Scotland, page 392:
- […] under the pain of confiscation of all their moveable goods, and to be otherwise punished in their persons as common ockerers, according to law.
- 1699, George Mackenzie, The Laws and Customs of Scotland, in Matters Criminal: Wherein is to be Seen how the Civil Law, and the Laws and Customs of Other Nations Doth Agree With, and Supply Ours, page 119:
- The first Species thereof is, Whoever receives more Annualrent[sic], than Ten for each Hundred, shall be punished as Ockerers, or Usurers, conform to the Laws of the Realm, already made, […]
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