EV-0063 — WA240304 item 11: Form 1C application & solicitor’s certificate of title

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TitleWA240304 item 11: Form 1C application & solicitor’s certificate of title
Date of document1983 (undated on the schedule)
Typeland registry record
Evidence labelPRIMARY DOCUMENT — NOT PUBLISHED HERE
Repository / referenceHM Land Registry, title file WA240304 (closed into WA231076 on 2 Feb 1987), item 11.
StatusPENDING — Official copy (OC2) from HM Land Registry, £11.
ProvenanceListed on the HMLR schedule (30 July 2026); Per 1925 Rules r.29, file should hold a solicitor’s certificate and company’s statutory declaration.
Claims that rely on thisLand Registry Titles, Master Change Log — Evidence Integrity Corrections (October 2026), New Archival Leads — Bute Archive List, 1793 Manor Deeds, Tŷ Mawr Plans and 1983, Source Conflicts Register — Where Public-Authority Replies and the Wiki Disagree, Start Here — Great House Farm (Tŷ Mawr), GHF-E090-N05 — “Historical Society had notable year” (Neath Guardian, 17 April 1, GHF-E090-N06 — “Burnt relics represented years of digs” (South Wales Echo, 18 Ma

Proves: HMLR schedule lists a Form 1C item on the farmhouse first-registration file.

Does not prove: Document’s content unseen; Whether it disclosed the occupation of Mary (Nancy) Williams, formerly Buckler, or any pending claim remains unknown.

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).

Why 1983

INFERENCE · W-03The farmhouse title was applied for on 23 Feb 1983, while she was alive and in occupation, and examined after her death (26 Mar 1983 in family records; "March 1983" in the judgment). HM Land Registry's 30 Jul 2026 schedule lists a D23 "inside exam" form with a Linklaters letter of 8 Apr 1983, correspondence of 12 Apr 1983, and Linklaters/Registry letters of 12 May 1983. The register edition carries the application date, 23 Feb 1983 (record). Working hypothesis: whatever the Registry asked about occupation was answered after the occupier had died, while the finished title speaks from a date when she was alive. The content of the three letters is not yet read.

Rests on: EV-0063 (this page) · EV-0066 · EV-0069 · EV-0070 · EV-0071 · EV-0161 · research log E133

Would be confirmed by: The 8 Apr, 12 Apr and 12 May 1983 letters (HM Land Registry subject access request, due 28 Oct 2026). If they described the house as vacant, or omitted her son in occupation, this reading is strengthened.

Would be refuted by: The same letters disclosing the occupation and BP's unresolved 1974 action to the Registry.

Status: Open; decisive input due 28 Oct 2026

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)

Title chain and registration

THEORY · R-02Ground R3: the farmhouse was registered separately (WA240304, Form 1C by Linklaters & Paines, edition 23 Feb 1983) while BP's own 1974 action "has never been finally heard"; the court was told the whole farm had been registered in November 1982. Working hypothesis: the farmhouse application, made with eight-plus years of admitted adverse possession behind her, is the point where the occupation and the unresolved action would have had to be declared.

Rests on: EV-0063 (this page) · EV-0065 · EV-0066 · EV-0080 · EV-0078 · ground R3; research log E91, E98

Would be confirmed by: A Form 1C (Co.) statutory declaration silent about her occupation or claim (subject access request item 11).

Would be refuted by: A declaration that disclosed both. Cuts against: the court's words match the register as merged on 2 Feb 1987, and paper title was never in issue.

Status: Open (ground R3, scores a2 b1 c3 d2)

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