Deed-poll definition

A legal document by which a person changes his or her name.
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(law) A deed relating only to one party, distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the paper cut evenly, or "polled", rather than being indented.

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(law, UK, Ireland) A deed that effects a change of an individual's name.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
deed-poll
Plural:
deeds-poll

Deed-poll Sentence Examples

  • A further deed poll providing for the removal of a General in the contingency of "mental incapacity" or other "unfitness," and for the election of a successor, was executed by Booth in July 1904.

  • The submission may be missions; effected sometimes by parol, sometimes by written instrument, sometimes by deed or deed poll.

  • The idea is to replicate the name change shown on your lost deed poll document.

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