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The laws were designed to keep corn prices high to favour domestic farmers, and represented British mercantilism. [ a ] The Corn Laws blocked the import of cheap corn, initially by simply forbidding importation below a set price, and later by imposing steep import duties, making it too expensive to import it from abroad, even when food supplies ...
Agricultural Holdings (England) Act 1883; ... Canada Corn Act 1843; Corn Laws; Corn Production Act 1917; Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886; H. Hill Farming Act ...
The Corn Production Act 1917 (7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. c. 46) was an Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom under David Lloyd George 's coalition government during the Great War .
The issue was divisive because of the increased urbanisation of the UK and its need for cheap food, as well as the general influence of free trade doctrines. The repeal of the Corn Laws initially steadied grain prices. Experts differ over whether by 1846 the Corn Laws were still relevant, because of low prices and/or self-sufficiency in grain. [43]
The corn laws imposed steep import duties, reducing the quantity of grain imported from other countries, even when food supplies were short. The laws were supported by Conservative landowners and opposed by Whig industrialists and workers. The Anti-Corn Law League was responsible for turning public and ruling-class opinion against the laws. It ...
An Act to explain, alter, and amend, an Act for repairing and widening several Roads leading from between the Second and Third Mile Stones on the Turnpike Road between the Town and County of Poole and Winborn Minster in the County of Dorset, to Bratton Corner in the County of Somerset; and for repairing and widening the Road from the Turnpike ...
The Customs Law Repeal Act 1825 (6 Geo. 4.c. 105), also known as the Customs' Laws' Repeal Act 1825, the Customs Repeal Act 1825 or the Customs Act 1825, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repealed various enactments relating to customs in the United Kingdom from 1558 to 1823.
Corn, etc. Act 1562: An act, made in the fifth year of Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An act touching badgers of corn, and drovers of cattle, to be licensed. The whole. 15 Cha. 2. c. 8 Butchers Act 1663: An act, made in the fifteenth year of King Charles the Second, intituled, An act to prevent the felling of live fat cattle by butchers. The whole ...