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 any of the laws regulating domestic and foreign trading of grain, the last of which was repealed in 1846.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

Here his "meteor pen," as the author of the Corn Law Rhymes aptly called it, passes like sunlight over the glowing page.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert

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

At the same time bad harvests diminished the supply of corn, and a new Corn Law which prohibited imports till the home price was eighty shillings a quarter aggravated the effects of natural deficiency.

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

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