Deliver
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1. (Formal, legal, technical, anal but potentially important): In relation to a deed, having executed it, to provide an executed version to the other parties. Hence, in the words of that great chancery lawyer Stevie Wonder, signed, sealed, delivered — I’m yours. Question; Does a deed poll also have to be delivered to be valid?
2. A voguish way of saying “give” or “do”.
3. Of a notice, do take it to an appointed address. The Cambridge Dictionary says that to “deliver” is “to take goods, letters, parcels, etc. to people’s houses or places of work”.[1]
Merriam Webster says it means “to take and hand over to or leave for another”.[2]
The Collins Dictionary of British English, in a rather modishly modern English format, tells us “If you deliver something somewhere, you take it there”.[3]
A bit more challengingly, the Lexico Oxford Dictionary says it means “bring and hand over (a letter, parcel, or goods) to the proper recipient or address”. Oxford’s language suggests a “handing” from sender to recipient, though a commonsense application of delivery through a letterbox to an address says the only “hands” involved are the sender’s.
An agent for the recipient does not need to be there; just that the notice is conveyed to the appointed place. It is no good refusing to answer the door, hiding behind the sofa or blocking up your letterbox with Araldite: if the sender’s agent brings a notice to your designated address, even by regular post, the sender has “delivered” it.
If it is, literally, impossible to arrange even an agent to hand-deliver a package, what then? Before the spring of 2020, most learned commentators would have regarded such a scenario as so absurd as to not dignify an answer. By April, ISDA was seeking advice about it.
3. (Tiresome) To bowl a cricket ball at a wicket.
See also
- Process agent
- Notices under the ISDA Master Agreement
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours) — Stevie Wonder
- Pop songs which use legal concepts