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ELBORNE, MITCHELL AND COMPANY {SOLICITORS}


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1274

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: ELBORNE, MITCHELL AND COMPANY {SOLICITORS}

Date(s): 1638-1932

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.33 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Elborne, Mitchell and Company | solicitors

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Conveyances are transfers of land from one party to another, usually for money. Early forms of conveyance include feoffments, surrenders and admissions at manor courts (if the property was copyhold), final concords, common recoveries, bargains and sales and leases and releases.

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.

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.

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, 1638-1932, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Hendon, Manor of Isleworth Syon, Stoke Newington, Hornsey, Tottenham and Enfield, including wills, fines, conveyances, exemplifications of common recovery, mortgages, bonds, bargain and sales and lease and releases.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

In sections: Hendon; Manor of Isleworth Syon; Hornsey and Stoke Newington; Tottenham and Enfield.

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 1975.

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
Bargain and Sale (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Common recoverys (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Conveyances (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Leases (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Legal documents | Law
Property owners | People by roles | People
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Releases (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Solicitors | Legal profession personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Wills | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Property law x Right to property
Property

Personal names

Corporate names
Elborne | Mitchell and Company | solicitors

Places