Reference
Z1578/Blun/1/15
Title
Requisitions on Title
Date free text
October 1889
Production date
From: 1889 To: 1889
Scope and Content
Requisitions on Title to Lot 4
[questions from solicitor for the purchasers (Conquest & Clare of Bedford), answers by solicitor for the vendors (Arthur S Wade-Gery)
- Q1. The Particulars of Sale state that the property is held of St John’s College (Cambridge) Manor of Blunham but the abstract states that it is held of the Manor of Blunham (Earl Cowper’s Manor) which is correct? Are the customs of Earl Cowper’s Manor more onerous to the tenant than those of the other manors?
- A1. It is held of Lord Cowper’s Manor the abstract is correct. Not that I am aware of …
- Q2. Probate of the Will of Emery Bodger should be produced. Who has custody of it?
- A2. Shall ask for it and can produce it any day.
- Q3. Did Richard Bodger’s Wife survive him and is she now alive? If she is she would be entitled to freebench if that is customary in the manor of which the property is held and should join in the assurance to the purchaser. Is there such a custom?
- A3. She survived him but is now dead.
- Q4. The Vendor prefers to take the entirety rather than to have 9/10ths with an abasement from the purchase money for the remaining 1/10th. What steps have been taken to obtain the concurrence of the Committee referred to in the 8th condition? Is there likely to be any prolonged delay in obtaining this concurrence?
- A4. The Committee’s Solicitor says there will be no difficulty but some delay. Shall written [sic] to ask and will let you know.
- Q5. Have the Vendors on their Solicitors a certificate of the death of Mary Ann Bodger widow of John Bolger? Where was he buried?
- A5. No. At Ippolitts in Hertfordshire.
- Q6. The following Succession duties must be cleared – 4th of 4/10ths to the Beneficiaries under Mrs Mary Bodger’s Will. 1/10th and 1/6th of 4/10ths to the beneficiaries under John Bodger’s Will. 1/10th of Charles Albert Bodger on death of his father Richard Bodger – also any freebench to Richard Bodger’s Widow if she became entitled to freebench.
- comment in margin: No duty payable see extract from Mr C R Wade-Gery’s letter below.
- A6. This will surely be Legacy Duty as Miss Bodger’s interest is by her will given in Trust for sale. This I have asked the Solicitor acting for them to do. The money will be paid into Court and the first question will be what duties are payable and they will [be] repaid out of that money. There is none.
- Extract from letter of 21st April 1890 from C R Wade-Gery to A S Wade-Gery re Bodger: “There are no Succession Duties payable by my client Mr J Addington in respect of the Tempsford and Blunham properties, as Mr John Bodger (of whom my client is the surviving Trustee) died in the lifetime of the tenant for life. I have a letter from the Somerset House authorities agreeing with me in this view”.
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