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London Metropolitan Archives

DIXON FAMILY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0139

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: DIXON FAMILY

Date(s): 1804-1862

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres.

Name of creator(s): Various.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

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.

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.

Source: British Records Association Guidelines 3: How to interpret deeds (available online).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Dixon family, including exemplification of a common recovery for premises in Kensington Square; and marriage settlement relating to premises at Winchmore Hill.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Documents arranged in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection 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:

The exact date of deposit of these records is not known, but it was most likely 1939-40.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

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: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Common recoverys (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Family archives | Personal papers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Family records | Personal papers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Marriage settlements (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Property owners | People by roles | People
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Property transfer | Property
Right to property | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Property law x Right to property

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Kensington | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Winchmore Hill | Enfield | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Kensington and Chelsea