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ALBERRY AND LUCAS {SOLICITORS}


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1439

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: ALBERRY AND LUCAS {SOLICITORS}

Date(s): 1779-1821

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Alberry and Lucas | 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.

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

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising a counterpart lease for a messuage in James Street, Covent Garden, 1779 and probate of will of Frances Caswall formerly of Abingdon Street, Westminster, now of Alvescot, spinster, made 20 April 1818, proved 1821.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Two items arranged chronologically.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the depositor.

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 1979 (ACC/1439)

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
Leases (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Legal documents | Law
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
Alberry and Lucas | solicitors

Places