Old documentation

[Hoolit]

We are selling our house, it's an ex council that we bought 10 years ago from previous owners not the council.
Our solicitors have now wrote to us to advise that some documentation from when the land was originally sold to the council in the fifties is missing.
They say a company can get us these papers for £85.
I am liable for this? Why was it not picked up when we bought the house?
I have no idea how these things work.
I know it's not a lot but we have spent money on stuff we probably didn't need to as we crumbled under pressure from the buyer who turned up on our doorstep late one night but that's another thread!
Thanks for any advice

It would appear the £85 is for an insurance policy.

Sounds like an indemnity policy to cover any future potential issues.

I've encountered this twice now and it's normally the buyer who pays but can depend - second time it happened when we were selling we got a 'I really didn't expect to have to put my hand in my pocket for anything else' from the buyer and not wanting the sale to fall through I covered the cost.

I found that with solicitors, many take a pragmatic view when stuff comes up on searches whereas others take it to the extreme and find issues with anything for the sake of it.

Thanks for reply, we will probably cover it but with gritted teeth as we seem to be covering everything!

I looked on the land registry and it seems they have deeds etc we bought in 2001 so am going to ask solicitors if we can get this instead or if it's not the same thing.
Every time you think it's all ok something else crops up grrr but I just keep thinking of my new house