Collection GB 0074 ACC/2921 - PETTIT AND WESTLAKE {SOLICITORS}

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GB 0074 ACC/2921

Title

PETTIT AND WESTLAKE {SOLICITORS}

Date(s)

  • 1808-1906 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

0.08 linear metres

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Name of creator

Biographical history

A deed is any document affecting title, that is, proof of ownership, of the land in question. The land may or may not have buildings upon it. Common types of deed include conveyances, mortgages, bonds, grants of easements, wills and administrations.

Conveyances are transfers of land from one party to another, usually for money. Early forms of conveyance include feoffments, surrenders and admissions at manor courts (if the property was copyhold), final concords, common recoveries, bargains and sales and leases and releases.

An assignment of term, or assignment to attend the inheritance, was an assignment of the remaining term of years in a mortgage to a trustee after the mortgage itself has been redeemed. An assignment of a lease is the transfer of the rights laid out in the lease to another party, usually for a consideration (a sum of money).

Abstract of title is a summary of prior ownership of a property, drawn up by solicitors. Such an abstract may go back several hundred years or just a few months, and was usually drawn up just prior to a sale.

From the British Records Association "Guidelines 3 - Interpreting Deeds: How To Interpret Deeds - A Simple Guide And Glossary".

Archival history

GB 0074 ACC/2921 1808-1906 Collection 0.08 linear metres Pettit and Westlake , solicitors

A deed is any document affecting title, that is, proof of ownership, of the land in question. The land may or may not have buildings upon it. Common types of deed include conveyances, mortgages, bonds, grants of easements, wills and administrations.

Conveyances are transfers of land from one party to another, usually for money. Early forms of conveyance include feoffments, surrenders and admissions at manor courts (if the property was copyhold), final concords, common recoveries, bargains and sales and leases and releases.

An assignment of term, or assignment to attend the inheritance, was an assignment of the remaining term of years in a mortgage to a trustee after the mortgage itself has been redeemed. An assignment of a lease is the transfer of the rights laid out in the lease to another party, usually for a consideration (a sum of money).

Abstract of title is a summary of prior ownership of a property, drawn up by solicitors. Such an abstract may go back several hundred years or just a few months, and was usually drawn up just prior to a sale.

From the British Records Association "Guidelines 3 - Interpreting Deeds: How To Interpret Deeds - A Simple Guide And Glossary".

Deposited in 1991.

Papers, 1808-1906, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in the Mount Croft Estate, Ealing, and the Hazelwood Park Estate, Edmonton, including leases, conveyances, abstracts of title, sales particulars, assignments and plans.

ACC/2921/1-16: Ealing; ACC/2921/17-19: Edmonton.

Available for general access.

Copyright rests with the depositor.

English

Fit

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

July to October 2009 Legal documents Abstracts of Title (documents) Conveyances (documents) Deeds Title deeds Leases (documents) Information sources Documents Sales particulars People People by roles Property owners Law Property ownership Civil law Legal systems Property Solicitors Pettit and Westlake , solicitors Legal profession personnel Personnel People by occupation Property law

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Deposited in 1991.

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Scope and content

Papers, 1808-1906, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in the Mount Croft Estate, Ealing, and the Hazelwood Park Estate, Edmonton, including leases, conveyances, abstracts of title, sales particulars, assignments and plans.

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System of arrangement

ACC/2921/1-16: Ealing; ACC/2921/17-19: Edmonton.

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Conditions governing access

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright rests with the depositor.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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English

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Finding aids

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

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London Metropolitan Archives

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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  • English

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