IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2413
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: CAPON, CAMPBELL, CLARE AND CLARE {SOLICITORS}
Date(s): 1850-1947
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.33 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Capon, Campbell, Clare and Clare | solicitors
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
A deed is any document affecting title, that is, proof of ownership, of the land in question. The land may or may not have buildings upon it. Common types of deed include conveyances, mortgages, bonds, grants of easements, wills and administrations.
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.
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).
Probate (also called proving a will) is the process of establishing the validity of a will, which was recorded in the grant of probate. If a person died intestate (without a valid will) their money, goods and possessions passed to their next of kin through an administration (or letters of administration) which had the same form in law as a will.
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 covenant or deed of covenant was an agreement entered into by one of the parties to a deed to another. A covenant for production of title deeds was an agreement to produce deeds not being handed over to a purchaser, while a covenant to surrender was an agreement to surrender copyhold land.
From the British Records Association "Guidelines 3 - Interpreting Deeds: How To Interpret Deeds - A Simple Guide And Glossary".
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1850-1947, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds, conveyances, mortgages, leases, abstracts of title, wills and other legal documents relating to properties in: Rutts Terrace and Dennett Road, Peckham Choumert Road, Bellenden Road and Copleston Road, Peckham Seven Sisters Road, Tottenham Casella Road and Addiscombe Road, New Cross William Street, London Street and Copenhagen Street, Islington 47 Rectory Square, Stepney Moiravale (formerly Springfield), lower Teddington Road, Hampton Wick.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/2413/001 - 146
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:
Gifted in 1987 (ACC/2413)
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009