IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2860
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK
Date(s): 1825-1913
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): National Westminster Bank
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.
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.
From the British Records Association "Guidelines 3 - Interpreting Deeds: How To Interpret Deeds - A Simple Guide And Glossary".
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1825-1913, collected by the bank in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Kensington and Soho, including leases, conveyances and settlements.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/2860/001-010
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:
These records were donated by National Westminster Bank, 41 Lothbury, London, EC2P 2BP, on 16 Oct 1990.
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