IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0159
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: LEMAN, CHAPMAN AND HARRISON {SOLICITORS}
Date(s): 1708-1827
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.16 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Lehman, Chapman and Harrison | solicitors
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
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.
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 fine was a sum of money paid for the granting of a lease or for admission to a copyhold tenement.
Source: British Record Association Guidelines 3: How to Interpret Deeds - A simple guide and glossary (available online).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records relating to property, acquired by the solicitors in the course of their work. The records include mortgages, leases, lease and releases, fines, assignments of term, copies from baptism, marriage and burial registers, extracts from wills and correspondence; mainly relating to properties and persons in East Bedfont, but also Hatton, Heston, Egham, Leckhampstead, New Windsor, Wraysbury, Aldgate, and West Ham, 1708-1827.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/0159/001 - ACC/0159/058
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 1940 (Acc/0159).
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009