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Peddles old, mainly forged, legal documents (4,5)

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I believe the answer is:

deed polls

'legal documents' is the definition.
(deed poll is a kind of legal document)

'peddles old mainly forged' is the wordplay.
'mainly' means to remove the last letter (virtually or mainly the word, but not all of it).
'forged' indicates an anagram.
'peddles'+'old'='peddlesold'
'peddlesold' with its last letter removed is 'peddlesol'.
'peddlesol' is an anagram of 'DEED POLLS'.

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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