IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0908
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: LANE {SOLICITORS}
Date(s): 1763-1907
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.5 linear metres
Name of creator(s): John Lane | solicitor
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
John Lane, solicitor, was based at Goldsmith's Hall, Foster Lane.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1763-1907, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to properties in Tottenham, East Acton, Harrow, Highgate, Stoke Newington, Twickenham, Acton, Ealing, Teddington and Kingston. Papers of the solicitors relating to the Chancery case of the heirs of Halifax and Atkinson concerning property in Enfield and Ottery Saint Mary, Devon, 1790-1805; and papers relating to the case of A. Turner v. J. Bingham for debt, held in King's Bench, 1796.
Also the Sheriff of Middlesex's acknowledgment of the receipt into his custody of the bodies of persons charged by the outgoing Sheriff, 28 September 1794, with a schedule giving the name of defendants, date of arrest, plaintiffs, cause of action, sum sworn to be levied, name of process and their return and attorneys names. These are persons charged with debt, damages, bills of Middlesex, in King's Bench Prison; not criminal offences.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
In three sections: property records; papers of the Sheriff of Middlesex and case papers.
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 1965.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009