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HODGE, LLOYD AND GIBSON {SOLICITORS}


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1598

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: HODGE, LLOYD AND GIBSON {SOLICITORS}

Date(s): 1827-1919

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Hodge, Lloyd and Gibson | solicitors

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

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".

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1827-1919, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Saint John's Wood, Saint Marylebone and Hampstead including leases, assignments of leases, mortgages and an abstract of title.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

In 2 sections: St John's Wood and Marylebone; Hampstead.

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:

Received in 1980.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: 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.

Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Abstracts of Title (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Leases (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Legal documents | Law
Mortgages (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Property owners | People by roles | People
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Solicitors | Legal profession personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Property law x Right to property
Property

Personal names

Corporate names
Hodge | Lloyd and Gibson | solicitors

Places