Poll

5 1, n.

A head; a person. Polls. Individual persons; also, the place ■where electors are counted, and the votes by which they are counted.

Whence polling place

Challenge to the polls. A challenge to single persons as jurors.^ See Challenge, 3.

Deed-poll.

A deed made by one party only, the edges of the instrument being " polled " or shaven even.'

See further Deed, 2. Poll-tax.

A tax upon individual persons.

See Tax, 2.

3, V. To enter the names of persons on a list or in a registry, as, for purposes of taxation, or voting.

Poll a jury

To call the names of the persons who compose a jury and require each man to declare his verdict before it is recorded. In most of the States it is the absolute right of an accused person to poll the jury. The right did not exist at common law; it seems to have grown up in ■practice.^ • 1 Twenty Per Cent. Cases, 13 Wall. 576 (1871), Clifford, J. 2 People u.

Morgan, 90 111. 563 (1878). s Chesterfield v. Janssen, 2 Ves. Sr. *156 (1750), Hardwicke, Ld. Ch. * Mississippi v. Johnson, 4 Wall. 475 (186G). ^ O. Dut. polle, a head or pate. ' See 3 Bl. Com. 361; 4 id. 352.

The rulings differ as to-Mie right of a party to demand a poll of the jury. In some States, in both civil and criminal cases, the right may not be denied; in others, the matter is left to the discretion of the trial judge.!