FARRER AND COMPANY {SOLICITORS}

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 ACC/1285
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: FARRER AND COMPANY {SOLICITORS}
Date(s)	: 1851-1938
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 8.33 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Farrer 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.

Probate (also called proving a will) is the process of establishing the validity of a will, which was recorded in the grant of probate.

If a person died intestate (without a valid will) their money, goods and possessions passed to their next of kin through an administration (or letters of administration) which had the same form in law as a will.

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

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1851-1938, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Old Brentford, the Parish of Ealing, the Manor and Parish of Isleworth, and papers of Montgomery Family relating to premises in Acton, Brentford and Twickenham. Papers include conveyances, mortgages, deeds of settlement, assignments, probates of wills, memoranda and letters of administration.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

In sections: Old Brentford, parish of Ealing, and manor of Isleworth Syon; Isleworth; Papers of Montgomery family and letters of administration and probates.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the City of London.

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 1975

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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