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1756 Crit. Rev. Dec. 443 He [sc. M. Postlethwayt] affirms, that the land-tax being rendered equal, would, at four shillings in the pound, produce, at least, a million per annum more than it does at present, which upon his ready money or short-credit system of dealing by the government, would amount to more than a quarter part of the whole supplies which may be wanted.]

1796 tr. I. Kant in Monthly Rev. 20 App. 486 A machine by which state acts against state, a credit-system [Ger. Creditsystem] with debt infinitely increasing, and secured against immediate demand.

1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. liv. 176 They..saw that the credit system leads to almost incessant litigation.

1944 E. W. Kemmerer Gold & Gold Standard ii. 49 There were many significant developments in the nation's banking and credit systems, notably those centering in the Peal Act of 1844.

2011 G. McCormack Secured Credit & Harmonisation of Law iii. 57 Gaps or weaknesses in collateral-based credit systems hinder financial and economic development.