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 any of the laws regulating domestic and foreign trading of grain, the last of which was repealed in 1846.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

Today, the world’s stronger economies are more Cobden than Corn Law—all because of abolition of an English grain tariff.

From Time

The businessman and philanthropist claimed he was a “classical liberal” and said he considered William Gladstone, the 19th century British politician who was against Corn Law trade tariffs and political patronage, as a political hero.

From The Guardian

A few dreamt of a new England in which gentle and simple were to mix on new-old terms; and a multitude, shrewd and hard-headed, believed in the Corn Law League, whose speakers travelled from Manchester to carry the claims of cheap bread to butter crosses and market towns, and there bearded the very landlord's agent.

From Project Gutenberg

That the lordly Corn Laws, the bulwark of the landed interest, the prop of agriculture, that had withstood all attacks for two generations, and maintained themselves alike against high prices and the Corn Law League--that these should go down because a vulgar root like the potato had failed in Ireland--it was a thing passing belief.

From Project Gutenberg

I close this notice of the great English peasant, by quoting the closing stanza of a beautiful tribute to his memory, by Ebenezer Elliott, the author of "Corn Law Rhymes."

From Project Gutenberg