0 in the UK, a type of legal document, especially one that allows someone to officially change their name: --
It is essential that something as simple as a deed poll change of name should not be used to evade the proper powers of the law or of the police.
It is obvious that in a great many cases persons would simply want to create a statutory charge, that would be done by deed poll, and not by deed.
A deed poll must be a deed, but a deed is not a deed poll, curiously enough.
In 1946, he changed his name by deed poll to try to bury the traumas of his past.
If a man has his licence endorsed for life and then, by deed poll, he changes his name, can he get another licence?
I have always held that the present free power to change your name by mere deed poll is wrong and ought to be limited.
That will also be available in any specialised transactions where plainly a deed poll is inappropriate, however unusual those transactions may be.
They can even change their name by deed poll.
