Writings -- Signature must be at end -- To be in English
Applied in 21 court decisions — leading case Hertz Commercial Leasing Corp. v. Joseph (1982)
Most recently applied in Ward v. Hilliard (February 2019)
Effective: October 1, 1942 History: Recodified 1942 Ky
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) When the law requires any writing to be signed by a party thereto, it shall not be deemed to be signed unless the signature is subscribed at the end or close of the writing.
(2) Every writing contemplated by the laws of this state shall be in the English language.
Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.