IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0732
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: WILLES AND GLADSTONE {SOLICITORS}
Date(s): 1575-1792
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.16 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Willes and Gladstone | solicitors
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
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.
A quitclaim is a deed renouncing any possible right to a property.
A bargain and sale was an early form of conveyance often used by executors to convey land. The bargainee or person to whom the land was bargained and sold, became seised of the land.
A Final Concord (or Fine) was a fictitious legal case in which the person transferring the land (the deforciant) was deprived of the land which was given to the purchaser of the land (the querent).
Source: British Records Association Guidelines 3: How to interpret deeds (available online).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1575-1792, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to properties mainly in Edgware, Hendon and Willesden. Documents include bargain and sales, bonds, quitclaim, mortgages, will and probate, covenants and final concords.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/0732/1 - ACC/0732/33
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 1960 (ACC/0732)
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