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Fee to the clerk for search for any statute, 2d. for one year’s search, and not more on pain of 20 times as much to the party grieved.
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VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no clerke of the said recognizances shall or may take, for or in respect of any search to be made for or concerning any statute merchant or of the staple, so to be entred as aforesaid, above two pence for one years search, and so after the rate of two pence for every yeare, and not above, upon paine to forfeit and loose to the party or parties grieved thereby, twenty times as much as he shall take contrary to the true meaning of this act, to be recovered in any of the King’s Majesties courts of record, by action of debt, bill, plaint or information, wherein no protection or wager of law shall be allowed.
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IX. Provided alwayes, That this act, nor any thing therein contained, shall extend or be construed to make good any purchase, grant, lease, charge or profit, of in or out of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, heretofore made voide, defeated, or undone, by reason of any former conveyance, grant or assurance, so as the party or parties, or their heires or assigns, which have so defeated or made voyde the same, were in actuall possession the first day of this present Parliament, of or in the said lands, tenements, or hereditaments, whereof, or out of the which, any such purchase, grant, lease, charge or profit was made.
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