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SPEECHLY BIRCHAM {SOLICITORS}


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2920

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SPEECHLY BIRCHAM {SOLICITORS}

Date(s): 1811-1907

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Speechly Bircham | solicitors

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Abstract of title is a summary of prior ownership of a property, drawn up by solicitors. Such an abstract may go back several hundred years or just a few months, and was usually drawn up just prior to a sale.

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 solicitors in the course of their work, comprising account of Fricker and Henderson for 'painting and imitations' done to villa of John Walters, Teddington, 1811 and abstract of title of the North London Land and Building Co. Ltd. to premises in Belsize Avenue, Bowes Park, Edmonton (formerly part of Bowes Farm House/Manor House estate), 1907, with plans.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the depositor.

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:

Deposited in 1991.

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Abstracts of Title (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Legal documents | Law
Property owners | People by roles | People
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Solicitors | Legal profession personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Property law x Right to property
Property

Personal names

Corporate names
Speechly Bircham | solicitors

Places