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Deed poll - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Act, Action, Adventure, Agreement, Alien, Alienate, Amortize, Aristeia, Arrangement, Bargain, Barter, Blow, Bond, Cause, Charter, Compact, Confer, Contract |
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A deed poll is a legal and formal contract binding only to a single person. The most common form is a name change through a Deed of Change of Name.
The name deed is common to signed written agreements. Poll is an archaic legal term referring to documents with straight edges; these distinguished a deed binding only one person from one affecting more than a single person (an indenture, so named during the time when such agreements would be written out repeatedly on a single sheet for each party, then irregularly torn or "indented" so that each party had a document with a unique tear, to discourage forgery).
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