# Metropolitan Commons Act 1878, Section 2: Power to Metropolitan Board to acquire and hold common rights.


A London borough shall, in respect of any common the whole or part of which is situate within the borough, have the same power to purchase and hold, with a view to prevent the extinction of the rights of common, any saleable rights in common, or any tenement of a commoner having annexed thereto rights of common, as is conferred by the fifth paragraph of the eighth section of the Commons Act 1876 upon a district council in respect of a suburban common.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/41-42/71/section/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-commons-act-1878/section-2
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