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LONGMORE {SOLICITORS}


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0687

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: LONGMORE {SOLICITORS}

Date(s): 1764-1903

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.16 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Longmore | solicitors

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice deals with business law, trust law, probate law, and land law in relation to issues of equity; while the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice (or King's Bench Division when the monarch is male) has two roles. It hears a wide range of contract law and personal injury and general negligence cases, but also has special responsibility as a supervisory court.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1764-1903, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to properties in South Mimms, Highgate, Edmonton, Whetstone, Enfield, Hornsey and Islington; with papers relating to cases at the Chancery Division and Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

ACC/0687/Bundle 1 - 10; ACC/0687/FL.1 - 5

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the City of London.

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 1959.

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
Contract law | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Court rolls | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Leases (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Mortgages (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Property owners | People by roles | People
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Sales of land | Land economics | Agricultural economics
Solicitors | Legal profession personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Contracts x Contract law
Property law x Right to property
Property

Personal names

Corporate names
Longmore | solicitors

Places
Edmonton | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Enfield (district) | Enfield | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Highgate | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Hornsey | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Islington (district) | Islington | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
South Mimms | Hertfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Whetstone | Barnet | Hertfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Haringey