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GARRARD AND ALLEN {SOLICITORS}


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0266

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: GARRARD AND ALLEN {SOLICITORS}

Date(s): 1663-1889

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.16 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Garrard and Allen | solicitors

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Cross Keys Inn, Uxbridge, was in existence by 1548.

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).

An 'indenture' was a deed or agreement between two or more parties. Two or more copies were written out, usually on one piece of parchment or paper, and then cut in a jagged or curvy line, so that when brought together again at any time, the two edges exactly matched and showed that they were parts of one and the same original document. A 'right hand indenture' is therefore the copy of the document which was on the right hand side when the parchment was cut in two.

A 'fine' was a fee, separate from the rent, paid by the tenant or vassal to the landlord on some alteration of the tenancy, or a sum of money paid for the granting of a lease or for admission to a copyhold tenement.

Common Recovery was a process by which land was transferred from one owner to another. It was a piece of legal fiction involving the party transferring the land, a notional tenant and the party acquiring the land; the tenant was ejected to effect the transfer. An exemplification was a formal copy of a court record issued with the court's seal.

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

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1663-1889, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including conveyances by lease and release, wills and bequests, bonds, indentures of fine, mortgages and exemplifications of common recovery relating to the Cross Keys Inn and adjoining premises, Uxbridge. Also sales catalogues for various properties and copies of wills.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

ACC/0266/1-18: Cross Keys Inn papers; ACC/0266/19-28: Sales particulars; ACC/0266/29-33: Wills.

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 1948 (Acc/0266).

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
Common recoverys (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Fines (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Indentures | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Inns | Commercial buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Leases (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Mortgages (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Property owners | People by roles | People
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Releases (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Sales | Trade (practice)
Sales particulars | Documents | Information sources
Solicitors | Legal profession personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Wills | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Property law x Right to property
Property

Personal names

Corporate names
Garrard and Allen | solicitors
The Cross Keys Inn | Uxbridge

Places
Uxbridge | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Hillingdon