capital sum

Houses and lands brought him in £7000 a year; and he had woods and goods worth a capital sum Character of Cobham.

Thus the rate of interest is always stated in proportion to the capital sum and to the time; five per cent.

All which sums of money, as I have said before, are taken out of the capital sum or common stock of what is got by their piracy.

If the capital sum which these volumes have put into circulation be a very large one, has it contributed to my indulgences only?

The capital sum which he lent is now increased, and very rapidly increased, for six per cent.