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Statutes not entered void against subsequent purchasers for good consideration.
Clerk not entering or indorsing the statute forfeits 20l.
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VII. And be it further enacted, that if the party to whom any such statute merchant or of the staple shall be knowledged, his executors or administrators, doe, or shall not within foure moneths next after the knowledging of any such statute, bring and deliver, or cause to be brought and delivered unto the said clerke, or to his deputy or deputies for the time being, all and every such statute and statutes, as shall be so knowledged to him or to his use, whereby and to the intent that the said clerke, his deputy or deputies, may take and enter a true copy thereof, that then every such statute merchant and of the staple not so entred, shall be void, frustrate and of none effect, against all and every such person and persons, and bodies politique and corporate, their heires, successors, executors, administrators and assignes onely, as shall after the knowledging of the said statutes, or any of them purchase for money, or other good consideration, the lands, tenements, or hereditaments which were liable to the same statute merchant or the staple, or any part or parcell thereof, or any rent, lease or profit, of or out of the same; and if the said clerke, or his deputy or deputies for the time being, shall not upon such shewing and delivering unto him or them, of any statute merchant or of the staple, enter or cause to be entered, the same in his said booke, within the said time of six months, and also indorse upon every such statute so by him entred, the day and yeare of the said entry, with his or their owne name; that then every such clerke failing or defective in that behalf, shall forfeit and lose for every statute merchant and of the staple, so brought unto him or them, and not entred and indorsed as is aforesaid, the summe of twenty pounds ; the one moyety whereof to be to the King’s Majestie, his heires and successors, and the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same, in any of the King’s courts of record, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, wherein no essine, protection, or wager of law shall be allowed.
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