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Dear Mr Rossiter,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - INFORMATION REQUEST

The City of London (CoL) acknowledges receipt of your request for
information of 21 August 2011.

Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the
statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working
day after they receive a request. The Act does not always require public
authorities to disclose the information which they hold.

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and
port health authority. The CoL is the local and police authority for the
"Square Mile", ie the historic City of London, and not for London as a
whole. Please see the following link to a map on the CoL's website, which
shows the area covered:

[1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/maps/boundary_map.htm.
The CoL's port health authority functions extend beyond the City boundary.
For further information please see:
[2]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/porthealth.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer
City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1209
[3]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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Dear Mr Rossiter,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - INFORMATION REQUEST

Following your request of Sunday, 21 August 2011, and our acknowledgement
of Monday, 22 August 2011, the City of London (CoL) responds as follows.

Being a corporation by prescriptive right in common law, the CoL has no
charter of incorporation, and the information you have requested is not
held. For further information about the CoL, please refer to our website:
[1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk. You might find this webpage of particular
assistance:
[2]http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporati...

We hope that this response is of assistance.

If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has managed your
enquiry, please make your complaint in writing to email address:
[email address]. For a link to the CoL's FOI complaints
procedure, please visit the following page:
[3]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which is located the
FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL's FOI Complaints
Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the Information
Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information Commissioner,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Telephone:
(01625) 545700. Website: [4]http://www.ico.gov.uk/.

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and
port health authority. Subject to any other statutory provisions requiring
the City of London to disclose information, release of information outside
the scope of the Act is subject to the discretion of the CoL.

The CoL holds the copyright in this communication. Its supply does not
give a right to re-use in a way that would infringe that copyright, for
example, by making copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public or
to any other person. Brief extracts of any of the material may be
reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for
non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news
reporting, subject to an acknowledgement of the copyright owner.

Yours sincerely,

Comptroller & City Solicitor's Department

City of London

T: 020 7606 3030

E: [email address]

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Dear Mr Rossiter,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - INFORMATION REQUEST

The City of London acknowledges receipt of your further request.

Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the
statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working
day after they receive a request. The Act does not always require public
authorities to disclose the information which they hold.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer

City of London

Tel: 020-7332 1209

[1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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Dear Mr Rossiter,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - INFORMATION REQUEST

Following your request of 30 September 2011, and our acknowledgement of
the same date, the City of London Corporation (CoL) responds as follows. 

The CoL does not hold the information you have requested.

You requested information as to “… who was the original Disseisee and …
the original Disseisor regarding the ‘real estate’/area that is now called
‘The City of London Corporation’?”  We note that you have used the terms
Disseisee and Disseisor.  These legal terms relate to the wrongful putting
out of the person who is actually seised of a freehold interest in land
i.e. the dispossession of the person who is the rightful legal owner. You
have asked for this information in respect of the “original” Disseisee and
Disseisor.  We have therefore interpreted your request as being a request
for details of first owner of land within the current City of London
authority boundaries whose rights were dispossessed by another, and the
name of the first dispossessor of that land.

In our email of 22 August 2011, sent in response to your previous request
dated 21 August 2011, we provided you with links to information on the
CoL’s website.  The webpages explained that the urban centre of the City
of London existed before the Norman Conquest in 1066, there being a Roman
settlement on the site following their Conquest in AD 43.  As such the
original rights in land located within the boundaries of the City of
London (those boundaries having also altered over the centuries) will be
difficult, if at all possible, to identify. Here is a link to the relevant
webpage again, for your ease of reference -
[1]http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporati...

While not requested by you, we are able to advise you that the CoL will
hold information relating to its own interests in land.  Relevant records
are held by the London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) and may be accessed by
contacting the LMA directly: 
[2]http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporati...

[3]http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporati...

If you are interested in information relating to any land located within
the CoL authority area which you may consider has been the subject of
dispossession by the CoL, you would need to identify the land in question.

Information relating to land currently owned by the CoL and registered
with the Land Registry is available to the public by contacting the Land
Registry directly: [4]http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/.

You may also find it helpful to access records held at the Guildhall
Library: 
[5]http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporati...
The Museum of London (which has its own obligations as a public authority
under the FOIA) also holds information about the history of the City of
London:  [6]http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/.

If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has managed your
enquiry, please make your complaint in writing to email address:
[7][email address]. For a link to the CoL’s FOI complaints
procedure, please visit the following page:
[8]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which is located the
FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL’s FOI Complaints
Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the Information
Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information Commissioner,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Telephone:
(01625) 545700.  Website: [9]http://www.ico.gov.uk/.

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and
port health authority.

The CoL holds the copyright in this communication. Its supply does not
give a right to re-use in a way that would infringe that copyright, for
example, by making copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public or
to any other person. Brief extracts of any of the material may be
reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for
non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news
reporting, subject to an acknowledgement of the copyright owner.

Yours sincerely,

Comptroller & City Solicitor’s Department

City of London

T: 020 7606 3030

E: [10][email address]

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