104 Misc. 2d 38 - Oxhandler Structural Enterprises, Inc. v. Billard’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “The usury statutes are for the protection of the borrower and the purpose of section 5-511 of the General Obligations Law would be thwarted if the lender could avoid its consequences by asking the borrower to set the rate. Since the [obligee] herein asserted the defense of usury it cannot be said that the [obligee] waived the defense by setting or agreeing to the [usurious] rate of interest.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Seisay