Bromley v Smith
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | High Court of Chancery |
| Judgment Date | 03 June 1826 |
| Date | 03 June 1826 |
English Reports Citation: 57 E.R. 482
HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY
S. C. 5 L. J. Ch. (O. S.) 53.
Pleading. Parties. Attorney - General.
482 BROMLEY V. SMITH 1 SIM. 8. [8] bromley v. smith. Jane 3, 1826. [S. C. 5 L. J. Ch. (0. S.) 53.] Pleading. Parties. Attorney-General. A few of a large number of persons may institute a suit, on behalf of themselves and the rest, for relief against acts injurious to their common right, although the majority approve of those acts, and disapprove of the institution of the suit; and the Attorney-General need not be a party to it; but where the whole body concur in an abuse, the suit must be instituted by the Attorney-General. By an Act of Parliament, passed in the 40th Geo. 3, for enclosing and allotting certain waste lands in the parish of Saint Mary, in Stafford, over which the householders, being parishioners within that borough, were entitled to rights of common, the occupiers of houses, of the yearly value of £5 within the borough, or any seven or more of them were empowered to meet, at the times and places therein mentioned, for the purpose of making rules and regulations for the...
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