Mark
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
n.
1.
Persons unable to write their names are allowed to subscribe written instruments by making their mark, commonly done by the subscriber making two lines across each other, on the paper, deemed to represent the sign of the cross, to which his name is affixed by some other person. is the foundation of the term trademark, q.
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