IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/007
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: WESTMINSTER BANK
Date(s): 1828-1859
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Common Recovery was a process by which land was transferred from one owner to another. It was a piece of legal fiction involving the party transferring the land, a notional tenant and the party acquiring the land; the tenant was ejected to effect the transfer. An exemplification was a formal copy of a court record issued with the court's seal.
From the British Records Association "Guidelines 3 - Interpreting Deeds: How To Interpret Deeds - A Simple Guide And Glossary".
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers collected by the bank in the course of their work, comprising recovery relating to 1/3 part of 10 messuages, 1 court, and ½ acre in Saint Marylebone and Saint Pancras, with seal and portrait of George IV, 1828; and counterpart lease for premises on Tottenham Court Road, 1859.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Two 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:
Former references: D/89/2 and D/89/3
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated to the Archive in 1948 (AC/48/016).
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009