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1490 Act 4 Hen. VII c. 20 Accions populers in divers cases have ben ordeigned by many gode actes and statutes.

1579 Expos. Termes Law Accion populer, is an accion which is geeuen vppon the breach of some Penal statute, which..euery man that wyll may sue for him selfe, and the Queene, by information, or otherwise,..& because that this action is not geeuen to one man specyally but generally to the Queenes people that wyll sue, it is called an actyon populer.

1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. xvi. 131 I haue knowen it doubted, whether the Suertie of the good Abearing (commaunded vpon complaint) may be released by any speciall person, or no, bicause it seemeth more popular, then the Suertie of the Peace.

1704 Exact Abridgm. All Statutes 4 No release of a common person shall in this case discharge an Action Popular.

1755 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 2 Jan. in Misc. Wks. (1777) I. xxxiv. 177 An action popular, or of qui tam, would certainly lie.

1795 W. W. Hening New Virginia Justice 336 Likewise, after an action popular is brought, as well for the commonwealth as for the informer, according to any statute; the commonwealth can but discharge its own part, and cannot discharge the informer's part.

1872 Wharton's Law Lexicon (ed. 5) Popular action, brought by one of the public to recover some penalty given by statute to any one who chooses to sue for it.

1883 Bradlaugh v. Clarke in All Eng. Law Rep. (Lexis) Ext. 1582 As the law stood up to 1866, the omission to take the altered oath still rendered the party offending liable to great disabilities, and also to a penalty of £500, to be recovered in England by action popular, and in Scotland by some process.

1913 Law Rep.: King's Bench Div. 3 706 All offences against any penal statute, for which any common informer or promoter may lawfully ground any popular action, bill, plaint, suit, or information.

1974 Federal Suppl. (U.S.) (Lexis) 378 1221 The king can no way bar any action on a statute by the party grieved; nor even a popular action by a common informer, if commenced before his pardon or release.