Interpretation of an abreviation Please

[Fresh Fields]

Hello.

Below is a clip from a double page of entries attached to an 1800’s title deed.

Each line represents an instrument number and date, the abbreviated form of Grant; Mortgage; or Reconveyance, and the party’s involved.

In the case of the Recon., lines they are followed by the notation full - - [ abbreviation ??]

Is the legal terminology “full and sufficient” when acknowledging the mortgage has been repaid, and thereby cancelling that instrument number.

It’s the only assumption that I can think of at this time. Suggestions appreciated.

Alan.

[horselydown86]

I think you are right.  It looks (particularly the last two) like -

...full & sufft

- with the ampersand running into the s.

[Craclyn]

Sufficient

[Fresh Fields]

Thank you.

With no break following the &, I began to second guess myself. Trying to think what legal expression may have been used.

Even the mort for mortgage could throw the novice. Interesting to to see 10% being the interest rate in 1878 on what today could be called a 1st mortgage, registered against a substantial feehold title. Further up the page, two years prior, and it was set at 6 ^1/2 % pa.

Alan.

[Maiden Stone]

Interesting to to see 10% being the interest rate in 1878 on what today could be called a 1st mortgage, registered against a substantial feehold title. Further up the page, two years prior, and it was set at 6 ^1/2 % pa.

I looked at tables of historical interest rates yesterday in connection with another RC enquiry relating to early 19thC. Rates were stable at 4% or 5% for almost a century until around 1820.