That it is disallowed habitually in most countries;
Yet has never been deemed a ground of national complaint against them:
That in England also, it was formerly unlawful in all cases:
That at this day it is denied there, in such a variety of instances, as to protect from it a great part of the transactions of life:
That, in fact, there is not a single title to debt, so formal and sacred, as to give a right to interest, under all possible circumstances, either there or here:
That of these circumstances, judges and jurors are to decide, in their discretion, and are accordingly in the habit of augmenting, diminishing, or refusing interest, in every case, according to their discretion:
That the circumstances against the allowance, are unquestionably of the strongest in our case:
That a great national calamity rendering the lands unproductive, which were to pay the interest, has been adjudged a sufficient cause of itself, to suspend interest:
That, were both plaintiff and defendant equally innocent of that cause,
The question, who should avoid loss? would be in favor of the party in possession: