IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/010
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: FILLMAN, HAYNES AND COMPANY {SOLICITORS}
Date(s): 1690-1931
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.33 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Fillman, Haynes and Company | solicitors
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.
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. 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).
Probate (also called proving a will) is the process of establishing the validity of a will, which was recorded in the grant of probate.
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 fee, separate from the rent, paid by the tenant or vassal to the landlord on some alteration of the tenancy, or a sum of money paid for the granting of a lease or for admission to a copyhold tenement.
A marriage settlement was a legal agreement drawn up before a marriage by the two parties, setting out terms with respect to rights of property and succession.
A bargain and sale was an early form of conveyance often used by executors to convey land. The bargainee, or person to whom the land was bargained and sold, took possession, often referred to as becoming 'seised' of the land.
From the British Records Association "Guidelines 3 - Interpreting Deeds: How To Interpret Deeds - A Simple Guide And Glossary".
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1690-1931, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds relating to properties in Stratton Street, Westminster, including lease and releases, marriage settlements, wills and probates, fines, assignments of terms, bargain and sales, contracts and mortgages.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
100 documents in chronological order.
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:
Donated to the Archive in 1952.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009