IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1318
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: ALLEN AND SON {SOLICITORS}
Date(s): 1806-1899
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.16 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Allen and Son | solicitors
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Probate (also called proving a will) is the process of establishing the validity of a will, which was recorded in the grant of probate.
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 covenant or deed of covenant was an agreement entered into by one of the parties to a deed to another. A covenant for production of title deeds was an agreement to produce deeds not being handed over to a purchaser, while a covenant to surrender was an agreement to surrender copyhold land.
From the British Records Association "Guidelines 3 - Interpreting Deeds: How To Interpret Deeds - A Simple Guide And Glossary".
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1806-1899, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Chiswick and Pinner; and papers of the Sadler family. Papers include copies of court rolls, deeds of covenants, releases and probate of wills.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
In sections: Chiswick Deeds; Pinner Deeds; Sadler family Deeds and Miscellaneous probates and settlements.
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 1976 (ACC/1318)
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009