This started as a separate title with the statute of Additions of 1413.
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Unlike the common law, the statute cuts off both equitable and legal claims to the title.
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A race statute will divest common law title from a person with superior title if the subsequent purchaser recorded their deed prior to the person with superior title.
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As Thomas More, Bishop Fisher believed that because the statute condemned only those speaking maliciously against the King's new title, there was safety in silence.