FC-001 — WA231076 Item 17: Form A13 Documents Lodged at First Registration
This material now lives at https://fcg.bucklerfamily.estate/case/fc-001-wa231076-item-17-form-a13.
Wiki catalogue reference: FC-001 · Custodian / source URL: Buckler family evidence repository
Evidence status: Open — obtain.
Repository: HM Land Registry historic/title file.
Forensic capture objective
Identify the documents actually lodged by the first-registration applicant as title evidence and compare them with the later 1969 root recital and 1971 abstract.
Required capture
- Complete copy and transcription where lawful.
- All documents named, dates, parties, acreage and plan references.
- Provenance, custody, and who supplied the record.
- What it proves, what it cannot prove, contradictions and alternative readings.
A missing or contradictory record is not itself proof of fraud or concealment.
Master forensic evidence schedule
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Interpretation: working hypotheses
Working hypotheses, kept apart from the record above. The record text on this page is unchanged. None of these is a finding: each line is labelled as inference, theory, a reading that cuts against the case, or a discarded theory, and names the evidence it rests on and what would confirm or refute it, so the reader can test it. Updated 25 Oct 2026 (v2: ingredients wording).
The 1962 → 1974 → 1983 sequence
THEORY · I-01Working hypothesis on the sequence, set out as dated steps for the reader to test. 11 Dec 1962: possession order in Cardiff County Court (EV-0041); the 12-year period from that order ran to 11 Dec 1974. In the 1974 County Court action she pleaded that the claim was barred (EV-0049). 17–19 Sep 1974: BP Pension Trust sought and obtained leave to enforce the 1962 order (EV-0080). 31 Oct 1974: letters permitting her to stay rent-free for life (EV-0050); the Court of Appeal later held that from then on her possession was by licence and no longer adverse (EV-0080). 30 Nov 1982 and 23 Feb 1983: first-registration applications for the fields and for the farmhouse (EV-0059, EV-0065). The hypothesis is that these steps were connected, each taking occupation the family treated as ownership closer to a registered title. No document read so far shows them planned together; W-04 and the discarded entries below set out readings that cut against it.
Rests on: EV-0041 · EV-0049 · EV-0050 · EV-0080 · EV-0059 · EV-0065
Would be confirmed by: The 1974 County Court file and leave application (HMCTS reply due 2 Nov 2026) and the 1983 application papers (HM Land Registry subject access request, due 28 Oct 2026) showing the steps were planned as one course of action.
Would be refuted by: Records showing each step was a separate routine act with its own cause (for example, the 1982 internal BP conveyance arising from a group restructuring unrelated to the farm).
Status: Open
Why 1983
INFERENCE · W-04The 30 Nov 1982 first-registration application for the fields was required by law, not chosen: the Vale had been an area of compulsory first registration since 1 Dec 1975, and LRA 1925 s.123 gave two months from the 19 Nov 1982 BP Pension Trust → BP Properties conveyance (record). Working hypothesis: the only voluntary step in 1982–83 was the farmhouse application of 23 Feb 1983 on Form 1C (Co.). This cuts against any reading that 30 Nov 1982 was itself a chosen moment.
Rests on: EV-0059 · EV-0265 · EV-0147 · EV-0158 · research log E55, E97
Would be confirmed by: Form 1E and the 19 Nov 1982 conveyance on the WA231076 file (subject access request).
Would be refuted by: A document showing the 30 Nov 1982 application did not rest on the 19 Nov 1982 conveyance.
Status: Record-backed; supersedes the earlier "stealth timing" reading
DISCARDED THEORY · W-06DISCARDED: the theory that the eight-year gap between the 31 Oct 1974 letters and the 30 Nov 1982 application was a chosen "stealth" moment. Reason: the 1982 application was compelled within two months of the 19 Nov 1982 internal conveyance, so its timing was set by statute.
Rests on: EV-0059 · research log E97
Would be confirmed by: Would be revived by evidence that the 19 Nov 1982 conveyance was itself arranged to time the registration.
Would be refuted by: Refuted by the statutory two-month rule.
Status: Discarded
CUTS AGAINST THE CASE · W-07Cuts against the case: no record yet found shows BP knew of a final illness between Nov 1982 and Feb 1983. She was long disabled (the 1974 press described an elderly widow confined to a wheelchair) and was 69. Timing the filings to an expected death is therefore not supported by anything read so far.
Rests on: EV-0067 · EV-0048 · research log E132
Would be confirmed by: BP or solicitors' correspondence of 1982–83 referring to her health.
Would be refuted by: A complete BP file for 1982–83 with no mention of her health.
Status: Open (cuts against)