IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2595
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: HALIFAX BUILDING SOCIETY
Date(s): 1895-1976
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Halifax Building Society
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
A deed is any document affecting title, that is, proof of ownership, of the land in question. The land may or may not have buildings upon it. Common types of deed include conveyances, mortgages, bonds, grants of easements, wills and administrations.
Conveyances are transfers of land from one party to another, usually for money. Early forms of conveyance include feoffments, surrenders and admissions at manor courts (if the property was copyhold), final concords, common recoveries, bargains and sales and leases and releases.
An assignment of a lease is the transfer of the rights laid out in the lease to another party, usually for a consideration (a sum of money).
Abstract of title is a summary of prior ownership of a property, drawn up by solicitors. Such an abstract may go back several hundred years or just a few months, and was usually drawn up just prior to a sale.
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, 1895-1976, collected by the Halifax Building Society in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to 368 High Road, Chiswick; including leases, assignment of lease, abstract of title, conveyances, deed of covenant and agreements.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/2595/001-012.
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:
Deposited in 1988.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009