IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/178
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: LUCAS AND WYLLYS {SOLICITORS}
Date(s): 1753-1850
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Lucas and Wyllys | solicitors
CONTEXT
Administrative/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.
Lease and release was the most common method of conveying freehold property from the later seventeenth century onwards, before the introduction of the modern conveyance in the late nineteenth century. The lease was granted for a year (sometimes six months), then on the following day the lessor released their right of ownership in return for the consideration (the thing for which land was transferred from one party to another, usually, of course, a sum of money).
A quitclaim was a deed renouncing any possible right to a property. The name comes from the Latin Quietus Clamatus.
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).
From the British Records Association "Guidelines 3 - Interpreting Deeds: How To Interpret Deeds - A Simple Guide And Glossary".
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1753-1850, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising a release, a quitclaim, and two assignments, relating to property in Saint Marylebone and Worcestershire.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
O/178/001-005
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright rests with the depositor.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited in 1964
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009