Popular Action
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An action given by statute to any one who will sue for the penalty. A qui tarn action.
Dig. 47. 23. 1.
POPULISCITUM (Lat.) An act of the commons; same as plebiseitum.
Ainsworth.
A law passed by the whole people assembled in comitia centuriata, and at the proposal of one of the senate, instead of a tribune, as was the case with a plebisdtum.
Tayl. Civ. Law, 178; Mackeld. Civ, Law, §§ 26, 37.
POPULUS (Lat.) In the Roman law. The people; the whole body of the citizens, including, with the plebs or commonalty, the patricians and senators; appellatione populi