changing your name by deed poll

[darth vader]

Why is it called 'deed poll'?

[sft42]

This from the deed polls own web site on

http://www.ukdps.co.uk/WhyIsItCalledADeedPoll.html

A Deed is a written legal agreement that has been signed and delivered (given to any concerned party). Poll was a legal term used to describe a document that had its edges cut (polled) so they were straight. This was done to visually distinguish between a deed signed by one person (a polled deed - hence the term Deed Poll) and a deed signed by more than one person (an indenture), which had an edge indented or serrated. There were originally two parts of an indenture written on one piece of parchment, which was afterwards torn in half and one half given to each party. The impossibility of matching the tear was a guard against forgery.

[darth vader]

munchengladbach Sft!