Deed Poll
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A deed which is made by one party only. A deed in which only the party making it executes it, or binds himself by it as a deed.
2 Washb. Real Prop. 588.
The distinction between "deed poll" and "indenture" has come to be of but little importance. The ordinary purpose of a deed poll is merely to transfer the rights of the grantor to the grantee. It was formerly called charta de una parte, and usually began with these words: Soiant praesentes et futuri quod ego, A., etc.; and now begins, "Know all men by these presents that I, A. B., have given, granted, and enfeoffed, and by these presents do give, grant, and enfeoff," etc. Cruise, Dig. tit.
32, c. 1, § 23.
See "Indenture."
See Indenture.