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Document Number:					0704034
Title:		Conveyance
Date:			29 March 1869
For Sale:				£48.00
Condition:
Very good
Description:
Parchment : 1 sheet, 66cm x 55cm, Revenue Stamp, signed X the mark of John Pickett against red wax seal
Summary of contents:
PARTIES John PICKETT of Wroughton in the County of Wiltshire - Brewer Thomas PICKETT of Saint Margarets in the Parish of Preshute, Wiltshire - Horse Dealer William PICKETT late of Wroughton, Wiltshire - Labourer (deceased) SUBJECT The document begins by reciting that William Pickett, the father of John Pickett, acquired a plot of land in Wroughton, Wiltshire, in about 1784 and erected a cottage on it. William Pickett died about 1826 and John Pickett, his only son, "entered into possession and occupation" of it - evidently without any formalities. John Pickett is now selling the cottage to Thomas Pickett for £50. Unusually, Thomas Pickett declares that his wife WILL be entitled to dower in the property. It is clear that there is no documentary evidence to show exactly what title either William or John Pickett had to the property. The conveyance never states that they owned freehold or the fee simple - it can only say that there was never any "payment of quit or other rent".
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