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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deed poll
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After changing his name by deed poll to Captain Beany he needed a renewed passport to match his new identity.
▪ I suggested that he might think of removing the last three syllables from his name, which he did by deed poll.
▪ Like his new name, changed by deed poll nine years before.
▪ The Law Society will require evidence such as a marriage certificate, deed poll or statutory declaration.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deed poll

Deed poll \Deed" poll`\ (Law) A deed of one part, or executed by only one party, and distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or paper cut even, or polled as it was anciently termed, instead of being indented.
--Burrill.

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deed poll

n. 1 (context legal English) 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. 2 (context legal UK Ireland English) A deed that effects a change of an individual's name.

WordNet
deed poll

n. a deed made and executed by only one party

Wikipedia
Deed Poll
For the legal document of the same name, see deed poll.

Deed Poll is a German-made film, 2004, starring Barbara Kowa, Rainer-Maria Wittenauer and André Schneider, directed by Ingo J. Biermann.

Usage examples of "deed poll".

He was born Jeremy Percival Twistington-Smith, but when he came down from Oxford and joined the Labour Party he changed his name by deed poll to simple (forward with the workers) Percy Smith.

That had been a major consideration for Thomas Smith when he'd adopted it by official deed poll.

Europe the true believers had just changed their name by deed poll.

But I believe that that woman has had her new name changed by deed poll.

It didnt make a lot of sense to me at the time, but it did to Eric, or, rather, to Kimberlin Malkuth, Lord of a Thousand Suns, as he was known, having changed his name by deed poll.

Although a British citizen, the subject was from a Serb family, spoke fluent Serbo-Croat and had changed his name by deed poll.