Corn Law

American  

noun

English History.

1. any of the laws regulating domestic and foreign trading of grain, the last of which was repealed in 1846.

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Example Sentences

But the corner-stone of Protection was the Corn Law, and this remained in force, modified, but in principle untouched.

From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon

I shortly restate," he said, "the ground on which I rested for the repeal or the modification of the Corn Law system.

From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John

He left Peel’s party over the Corn Law controversy, and was afterwards identified in politics with Palmerston, at whose instance he was made a peer in 1863.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

Lord Loughborough lived there, and subsequently Lord Eldon, who had to escape with his wife into the British Museum gardens when the mob made an attack on his house during the Corn Law riots.

From Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London by Besant, Walter, Sir

It was for this object the Corn Law was passed, and yet in the face of your countrymen you dare to call it a law for the protection of native industry....

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright