Signature
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
A sign or mark impressed upon any thing; a stamp; a mark; the name of a person written and subscribed by himself. Signature implies the personal act of writing of his own name by a man, or that of actually making his mark. Authorizing another person to do either is not sufficient.
Chapman v. Limerick, 56 Me. 390.
Where the signature of the clerk is made by pasting on to the writ a piece of paper with his signature on it, there is no defect apparent on the record, as it may have been done with his permission.
Stevens v. Ewer, 2 Mete. {Mass.) 74.
Signature, in a statute relative to obtaining a signature by false pretences, includes indorsement of a negotiable note. People u.
Chapman, 4 Park. Cr. 56.