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The BBC reports that record numbers of Britons are legally changing their name by deed-poll, and speculates on the factors that account for this escaping your past, reverting to maiden names after divorce, merging names for marriage, but they miss the big one: the fact that you can't just change what you call yourself anymore.
Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2011
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Determined not to allow her heritage to disappear, she reclaimed her family name by deed-poll.
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The clock weight, that should know time no more, was well imbosomed in the old deed-poll, and all stitched firmly in the tough brown frail, whose handles would help for a long strong cast.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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The appointment was by deed-poll, and strictly in accordance with the powers of the settlement.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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The appointment was by deed-poll, and strictly in accordance with the powers of the settlement.
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The clock weight, that should know time no more, was well imbosomed in the old deed-poll, and all stitched firmly in the tough brown frail, whose handles would help for a long strong cast.
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She had taken steps to change her name by deed-poll and obtain a passport in the new name of 'Meta International'.
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If you wish me to set my offer plainly before you, and so relieve the property of the cost of a hopeless struggle — for I have taken the opinion of the first real property counsel of the age — you will, as a token of good faith and of common-sense, produce for my inspection that deed-poll of November 15, 1751.”
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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If you wish me to set my offer plainly before you, and so relieve the property of the cost of a hopeless struggle -- for I have taken the opinion of the first real property counsel of the age -- you will, as a token of good faith and of common-sense, produce for my inspection that deed-poll of November 15, 1751. "
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