IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2369
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BAILEYS, SHAW AND GILLETT {SOLICITORS}
Date(s): 1787-1884
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Baileys, Shaw and Gillett | solicitors
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
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).
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.
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.
From the British Records Association "Guidelines 3 - Interpreting Deeds: How To Interpret Deeds - A Simple Guide And Glossary".
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1787-1884, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Tower Street (formerly Gilberts Row), Southwark, including leases, abstract of title, assignment of leasehold, marriage settlement and accounts.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/2369/001 - 016
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:
These records were deposited in the Greater London Record Office, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB, 30 January 1987 (ACC/2369)
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009