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WILLES AND GLADSTONE {SOLICITORS}


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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Bonds | Documents | Information sources
Final concords (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Legal documents | Law
Mortgages (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Probate copies | Wills | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Property owners | People by roles | People
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Property law x Right to property
Property

Personal names

Corporate names
Willes and Gladstone | solicitors

Places
Edgware | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Hendon | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Willesden | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Barnet
Brent