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 any of the laws regulating domestic and foreign trading of grain, the last of which was repealed in 1846.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 1846 it fell to him, when President of the Board of Control, to move the Corn Law Repeal Bill in the Lords.

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

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

I had advised him not to send Peel many more Sonnets till the Corn Law was passed; the Indian war arranged; and Oregon settled: but Barton sees no dragon in the way.

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis

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

The friends of Government who represent counties will be taunted with the proposal to alter the Corn Law.

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