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RCW 19.52.080

Defense of usury or maintaining action thereon prohibited if transaction primarily agricultural, commercial, investment, or business—Exception.

Applied in 26 court decisions — leading case 67 Wash. App. 135 - Thweatt v. Hommel (1992)

Most recently applied in REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST OF STRAND v. Wel-Co Group, Inc. (March 2004)

1981 c 78 s 2; 1975 1st ex.s. c 180 s 1; 1970 ex.s. c 97 s 2; 1969 ex.s. c 142 s 1.

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

Profit and nonprofit corporations, Massachusetts trusts, associations, trusts, general partnerships, joint ventures, limited partnerships, and governments and governmental subdivisions, agencies, or instrumentalities may not plead the defense of usury nor maintain any action thereon or therefor, and persons may not plead the defense of usury nor maintain any action thereon or therefor if the transaction was primarily for agricultural, commercial, investment, or business purposes: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That this section shall not apply to a consumer transaction of any amount.

Consumer transactions, as used in this section, shall mean transactions primarily for personal, family, or household purposes.

Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.