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 any of the laws regulating domestic and foreign trading of grain, the last of which was repealed in 1846.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

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

I asked, in case they meant to bring on this Corn Law question, when would they do so.

From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount

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

He played the flute and possessed the gift of repeating verse—especially Ebenezer Eliot's Corn Law Rhymes—so as to stir a great audience to enthusiasm or tears.

From Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

He then goes on to join the temporary relief of Irish distress with the permanent arrangement of the Corn Law question.

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