IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0963
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: WATERHOUSE AND COMPANY {SOLICITORS}
Date(s): 1675-1840
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.33 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Waterhouse and Company | 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.
Lease and release was the most common method of conveying freehold property from the later seventeenth century onwards, before the introduction of the modern conveyance in the late nineteenth century. The lease was granted for a year (sometimes six months), then on the following day the lessor released their right of ownership in return for the consideration (the thing for which land was transferred from one party to another, usually, of course, a sum of money).
From the British Records Association "Guidelines 3 - Interpreting Deeds: How To Interpret Deeds - A Simple Guide And Glossary".
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1675-1840, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds, copies of court rolls, leases and releases, certificates, plans and mortgages for property in Edgware, Enfield, Hendon, Tottenham, and East Barnet.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/0963/001 to ACC/0963/099.
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 1967 (ACC/0963).
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