cornlaw

plural cornlaws

1. rareRare spelling of corn law.

   When I became a Freetrade agitator in 1824, I could not find one respectable shopkeeper who thought the cornlaws an evil.

   1849 October 17, Ebenezer Elliott, “Preface”, in More Verse and Prose by the Cornlaw Rhymer, volume 1, published 1850, page v

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   Another poem of this time, The Golden Year published in 1846, gives in antithetical form the hopeful liberal point of view founded on […] repeal of the cornlaws and freeing of commerce and Press […]

   1963, Charles Tennyson, Tennyson and His Times, page 6

   He started away from the protection of agriculture on which Tory landowners depended for prosperity. They wanted the cornlaws and he moved step by step towards repeal.

   1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 223