deed poll

1. 1.

   a deed made and executed by only one party

   Broaderdeed

   law

Questions about deed poll

What does deed poll mean?

deed poll means "a deed made and executed by only one party".

Is deed poll a common word?

deed poll is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.