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Corn Returns. By the (English) Corn Returns Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 37), consolidating with amendments 5 & 6 Vict. c. 14, and 27 & 28 Vict. c. 87, certain towns as named by Order in Council from time to time and being not less that 150 nor more than 200 in number, supply through 'inspectors of corn returns' weekly returns of the purchases of British corn made in such towns. The inspectors make up these returns from the dealers and corn factors, etc., who are bound by s.11 of the Act to supply particulars under a penalty not exceeding 20l. Average are computed by the Board of Trade from the weekly returns, and published in the London Gazette. The (English) Corn Sales Act, 1921, ss. 2, 4, makes a minor amendment to the Act of 1882....
Corn Production Act, 1917 (English)
Corn Production Act, 1917 (English), was an Act for encouraging the production of corn, and provided, inter alia, for State payments to growers where the average price of wheat or oats fell below a minimum. It was amended by the Agricultural Act, 1920, and repealed by the Corn Production Acts (Repeal) Act, 1921. As to the Wheat Commission, Fund and Quota, see the Wheat Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 24); and see CORN SALES ACT, 1921....
Corn-rent
Corn-rent. A rent paid either in corn, or on a sliding scale in accordance with the price of corn. See Kendall v. baker, (1852) 11 CB 842. It was directed by18 Eliz. C. 6, that one-third of the whole rent then paid on college leases should be reserved in wheat or malt, reserving a quarter of wheat for each 6s. 8d., or a quarter of malt for every 5s.; or that the lessees should pay the same according to the price that wheat or malt should be sold for in the market next to the respective colleges; but this Act, though specially saved by s. 7 of the (English) Ecclesiastical Leases Act, 1800 (39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 41), was repealed by the (English) Universities and College Estates Act, 1925....
Aver-corn
Aver-corn, a reserved rent in corn paid to religious houses, Cowel...
Booting, or Boting corn
Booting, or Boting corn [fr. boteor boot, Sax., compensation], rent corn, anciently so called....
Corn
Corn, means wheat, barley, rye, maize and oats which is produce of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, Corn Returns Act, 1882, s. 18 (amended by the Agriculture Act, 1970, s. 108(3) (d) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 956, p. 585....
Corn Sales Act, 1921 (English)
Corn Sales Act, 1921 (English), provides, with cer-tain exceptions, that all sales of corn (i.e., wheat, barley, oats, rye, maize, and the bran and meal therefrom) shall be by weight and in terms of and by reference to the one hundred weight of 112 imperial standard pounds, otherwise transactions are null and void. The Act also applies to dried peas, dried beans, linseed and potatoes, and to the seeds of grass, clover, vetches, Swedes, field turnips, rape, filed cabbages, field kale, field kohl-rabi, mangels, beet and sugarbeet, flax and sainfoin. By s. 5 ibid. the price and value under any Act, award, or instrument of an imperial bushel shall have effect as if the price or value were calculated on that of sixty imperial pounds of wheat, fifty of barley and thirty nine of oats....
Sharping corn
Sharping corn, a customary gift of corn which, at every Christmas, the farmers in some parts of England give to their smith for sharpening their plough-irons, harrowtines, etc., Blount....
corn bread
a bread made from corn meal...
Indian corn
A cereal plant of the genus Zea Zea Mays also simply called corn used widely as a food the maize a native plant of America...
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