It seems opportune that the old prohibition against interest on interest (_Cicero_, ad. Att., V, 21, and L, 26, Digest, XIV, 6) and the provision that the interest should not be permitted to be greater than the _alterum tantum_ (Digest, l. c.) should be permitted to continue. (Digest, l. c.) Both of these measures were first decreed by Lucullus, for the protection of Asia Minor. Compare § 115. Florentine law, of 1693, that interest in arrears, or that interest on interest beyond 7 years, should not be added to the principal without an express contract to that effect. (_Vasco_, Usura libera, § 155.) In England, the usury laws were by 2 and 3 Victor., c. 37, repealed, but only to the extent of excepting from their provisions bills of not over 12 months, and money loans not over £10. Compare _Rau_, Lehrbuch II, § 323.] [Footnote 194-7: Compare _Locke_, Considerations: Works, 10, 32 ff. In Spain, the Council of State is required to regulate the rate of legal interest yearly (law of 1856, art. 8); a thing which, according to _Braun_, would be better done in each individual case by the judges themselves. (_Faucher's_ Vierteljahrsschrift, 1868, II, 13.)] [Footnote 194-8: In Athens, the rate of interest in general was voluntary from the time of Solon, who, however, did away with slavery for debt. (Lysias adv. Theomn., 360.) Yet there was a legal rate of interest of 18 per cent. for the case in which a divorced husband delayed the return of his wife's dowry. Compare _Böckh_, Staatshaushalt der Athener, I, 148.] CHAPTER V. THE UNDERTAKER'S PROFIT. (_UNTERNEHMERLOHN._) SECTION CXCV. THE REWARD OF ENTERPRISE.