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A deed poll (plural: deeds poll) is a legal document binding only to a single person or several persons acting jointly to express an active intention. It is strictly speaking not a contract because it binds only one party and expresses an intention instead of a promise. For other uses, see Law (disambiguation). ...
A contract is a legally binding exchange of promises or agreement between parties that the law will enforce. ...
A party is a person or group of persons that compose a single entity which can be identified as one for the purposes of the law. ...
The most common use is a name change through a deed of change of name (often simply referred to as a deed poll). Deeds poll are used for this purpose in countries including England and Wales, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, New Zealand, some States and territories of Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore.[1] It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with legal name. ...
A deed of change of name is a legal document which enables a single person or a family to officially change his, her or their name and is bound to that contract. ...
Northern Ireland (Irish: , Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a constituent country of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ...
The states and territories of Australia make up the Commonwealth of Australia under a federal system of government. ...
Another common use is to partition land into different sections. For example, a piece of land may be partitioned (or carved out), by a deed poll, into Section A and the Remaining Portion thereof. This form of deed poll is commonly used in Hong Kong, where the development and redevelopment of land is rapid and flourishing. A partition is a term used in the law of real property to describe the court-ordered division of a concurrent estate into separate portions representing the proportionate interests of the tenants. ...
Origin of the term
The term "deed", also known in this context as a "specialty", is common to signed written agreements not supported by consideration: the seal (even if not a literal wax seal but only a notional one referred to by the execution formula, "signed, sealed and delivered", or even merely "executed as a deed") is deemed to be the consideration necessary to support the contract between the parties to the deed. "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, then irregularly torn or "indented" so that each party had a document with corresponding tears, to discourage forgery). In language, an archaism is the deliberate use of an older form that has fallen out of current use. ...
An Indentured servant is an unfree labourer under contract to work (for a specified amount of time) for another person, often without any pay, but in exchange for accommodation, food, other essentials and/or free passage to a new country. ...
Forgery is the process of making or adapting objects or documents (see false document), with the intention to deceive. ...
Footnotes - ^ However, in some jurisdictions, you may simply start using a new name without any formal legal process being required. The usual requirement is that the new name must be used exclusively and that the change was not made with the intent to defraud. Such jurisdictions include Australia where name change by deed poll is possible, and Scotland where there is no system of deeds poll.
In the broadest sense, a fraud is a deception made for personal gain. ...
This article is about the country. ...
External links The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) is a United Kingdom government department. ...
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