IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0687
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: LONGMORE {SOLICITORS}
Date(s): 1764-1903
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.16 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Longmore | solicitors
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice deals with business law, trust law, probate law, and land law in relation to issues of equity; while the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice (or King's Bench Division when the monarch is male) has two roles. It hears a wide range of contract law and personal injury and general negligence cases, but also has special responsibility as a supervisory court.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1764-1903, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to properties in South Mimms, Highgate, Edmonton, Whetstone, Enfield, Hornsey and Islington; with papers relating to cases at the Chancery Division and Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/0687/Bundle 1 - 10; ACC/0687/FL.1 - 5
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 1959.
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