GREGORY, ROWCLIFFE AND COMPANY {SOLICITORS}

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 ACC/1008
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: GREGORY, ROWCLIFFE AND COMPANY {SOLICITORS}
Date(s)	: 1739-1893
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Gregory, Rowcliffe and Company | solicitors

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

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).

A bond was a deed, by which person A binds himself, his heirs, executors, or assigns to pay a certain sum of money to person B, or his heirs.

From the British Records Association "Guidelines 3 - Interpreting Deeds: How To Interpret Deeds - A Simple Guide And Glossary".

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1739-1893, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Chiswick, including copies of the court roll of the manor of Chiswick, copies of wills, leases and releases, bonds and a mortgage.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

ACC/1008/01 to ACC/1008/15

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the City of London.

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 1968.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

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:
July to October 2009