Reference
X948/2/LU16/1
Title
Abstract of title of E C Jaquest to land in Cowper Street, Luton
Date free text
1898
Production date
From: 1898 To: 1898
Scope and Content
(I) Conveyance of 13 October 1896
Parties:
(i) Eleanor Lucy de Falbe of Luton Hoo Estate and 19 Grosvenor Square, London, widow; Henry Gerard Leigh of 19 Hans Place, London, captain in 1st Life Guards;
(ii) Harry Isaac Sell and Henry Impey of Princess Street, Luton, house agents
Reciting:
- will of John G Leigh of 15 July 1872 devising (a), amongst other property to Eleanor Lucy de Falbe, his wife (then Eleanor Lucy Leigh) for her life, remainder to the heir at law of John G Leigh;
- death of John G Leigh on 24 February 1875 leaving Henry Blundell Leigh, his brother, as his heir at law and proof of his will in PPR on 21 April 1875;
- Act of Parliament of 38 and 39 Victoria Chapter 3 (Leigh Estates Act 1875) enacting that it was lawful for Eleanor Lucy de Falbe and Henry Blundell Leigh, with approbation of the Court of Chancery, to sell parts of the Leigh Estate;
- death of Henry Blundell Leigh on 19 August 1875 leaving his eldest son Henry Gerard Leigh as his heir at law;
- Eleanor Lucy Leigh married Christian Frederick de Falbe on 4 December 1883;
- Order in Chancery of 25 July 1891 in Leigh v Leigh 1875 L65 by which Henry George Leigh was appointed trustee of the Leigh Estate Act 1875 in substitute for Henry Blundell Leigh and additional to Eleanor Lucy de Falbe;
- death of Christian Frederick de Falbe on 27 May 1896;
- agreement of 11 July 1896 by (i), provisional to agreement by Chancery, to sell to (ii);
- Order in Chancery of 1 August 1896 agreeing to the sale
Operative Part:
- (i) conveyed land including (a) to (ii) for £895
Property [inter alia and as shown on included plan]:
(a) land in a newly laid-out road in continuation of Cowper Street containing 1 rood, 12 poles bounded: NE by property of John Warren, Harry Gray, Henry Gudgeon, Arthur Attwood and Herbert Sharp; SW by newly laid-out road in continuation of Cowper Street and measuring 166 feet; SE by former part of Luton Hoo Estate measuring 85 feet; NW by property of Dickens measuring 85 feet
(II) Conveyance of 20 October 1896
Parties:
(i) Harry Isaac Sell and Henry Impey;
(ii) Edward Charles Jaquest of Stanley Street, Luton, carpenter
Reciting:
- (I)
Operative Part:
- (i) conveyed (a) to (ii) for £146/5/-
Property [as shown on included plan]:
(a) land in newly-laid out continuation of Cowper Street measuring 21 poles, 30 yards bounded: SE by property of Henry Gudgeon and Arthur Attwood and measuring 69 feet; SW by Cowper Street measuring 69 feet; SE by land of Harry Isaac Sell and Henry Impey and measuring 85 feet; NW by land by Harry Isaac Sell and Henry Impey and measuring 85 feet
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