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 any of the laws regulating domestic and foreign trading of grain, the last of which was repealed in 1846.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

In Parliament, the opposition found its strongest issue in the long Corn Law agitation demanded reform of the Corn Laws.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin

It had been painted to be carried, and I believe was carried by my father, or uncle, or some other good radical of our family, in a procession during the Corn Law agitation.

From Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Van Dyke, John Charles

He explained, too, that it was a genuine, if loosely remembered, quotation from Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn Law Rhymer.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

The Corn Law of 1815 was a copy of the Corn Law of 1670—so little had economic science grown in England during all those years.

From Lord John Russell by Reid, Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson)

Foster's famous Corn Law without doubt increased tillage, and, in conjunction with the inflated prices for produce caused by the French War, gave a powerful though a somewhat unhealthy impulse to the trade in corn.

From The Framework of Home Rule by Childers, Erskine