IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2197
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SOLE SAWBRIDGE AND COMPANY {SOLICITORS}
Date(s): 1855-1897
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Sole Sawbridge and Company | solicitors
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 term, or assignment to attend the inheritance, was an assignment of the remaining term of years in a mortgage to a trustee after the mortgage itself has been redeemed. 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).
Probate (also called proving a will) is the process of establishing the validity of a will, which was recorded in the grant of probate.
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.
From the British Records Association "Guidelines 3 - Interpreting Deeds: How To Interpret Deeds - A Simple Guide And Glossary".
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1855-1897, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in The Park, Ealing, including conveyances, mortgage and abstract of title. Also papers of George Hill of Millwall, including leases, probates of will, assignments, conveyances and mortgage.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/2197/01 to ACC/2197/017.
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 1985
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