Since the legal rate of interest has been reduced to five per cent.

由于法定利率已降至百分之五。

When the present annual land tax was first imposed, the legal rate of interest was six per cent.

目前的年度土地税首次征收时， 法定利率为百分之六。

If this legal rate should be fixed below the lowest market rate, the effects of this fixation must be nearly the same as those of a total prohibition of interest.

如果法定利率应固定在最低市场利率以下，则这种固定的效果必然与完全禁止利息的效果几乎相同。

Where the legal rate of interest, on the contrary, is fixed but a very little above the lowest market rate, sober people are universally preferred, as borrowers, to prodigals and projectors.

相反，在法定利率固定但略高于最低市场利率的情况下，清醒的人作为借款人普遍受到青睐，而不是浪子和投机者。