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 any of the laws regulating domestic and foreign trading of grain, the last of which was repealed in 1846.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

The amount of wheat imported into England before the era of Corn Law repeal was inconsiderable.

From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)

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

There is some truth in the latter part of this sentence—famine was not all a pretext, but it was certainly used by ministers as a cry to strengthen their Corn Law policy.

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

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

The repeal of the Corn Law was the greatest practical achievement of the Manchester School.

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