sometimes you needed to prove you were the righful owner of the property and were taken to court to do so for example in the civil war period many royalists were evicted by the puritans and their houses sold to pay for the war debt or lived in by the puritans.
when the King was reinstated the Royalists wanted their houses back (are you still with me) so there were often court cases to this effect.
now before the property act was changed in the 1925/6 you had to keep the deeds to a property for as long as possible to prove ownership but some of these deeds were lost (or used for insulation - check loft spaces)
even if there was no reason to prove the ownership many people did for fear of losing their property once again and this lead to a mass of cases held at the Chancery / Equity courts
TNA ref C54 title deeds endorsements court records
fictious law suites so judgement could be officially recorded back to the 1100s
Party 1 this is my house
Party 2 no it isnt
Taken to court
Court makes judgment each party gets a copy of the decision and a third copy is held by the court this is held at TNA back to the 1100s and after 14th c is searchable on name plaintiff. affidavit, witnesses, or property
court records- equity court . chancery court (from sell of property )
Equity courts owner occupied people went to court house passed down? 14th c
Chancery of exchequer bills and owners, derogatories and replications. 14thc
National property disputes honours lists houses for questions (cash for questions modern day example)
English civil war seized by parliamentarians sold off to pay war debt regained at end of civil war royalists wanted their properties back lead to equity cases en mass
Court exhibits name source pedigrees of family dissent, title deeds, diaries journals, correspondence
Chancery court exhibits wills family- inventrys, goods possessions chattels effects
so i would say your document was likely to be a dispute over property and then the outcome of same
remember a married womans property act - before the 1880's everything belonged to her husband she had no right - even if he died intestate