Skip to main content

The Signature in Law: From the Thirteenth Century to the Facsimile: The Signature in Law: From the Thirteenth Century to the Facsimile

The Signature in Law: From the Thirteenth Century to the Facsimile
The Signature in Law: From the Thirteenth Century to the Facsimile
    • Notifications
    • Privacy
  • Project HomeThe Signature in Law
  • Projects
  • Learn more about Manifold

Notes

Show the following:

  • Annotations
  • Resources
Search within:

Adjust appearance:

  • font
    Font style
  • color scheme
  • Margins
table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Table of cases
  9. Table of statutes
  10. 1 An introduction to the signature
    1. Dictionary definitions
    2. The manuscript signature
    3. Statutory definition of signature
  11. 2 The functions of a signature
    1. The primary evidential function
    2. Secondary evidential functions
    3. Cautionary function
    4. Protective function
    5. Channelling function
    6. Record-keeping function
  12. 3 Disputing a manuscript signature
    1. Defences
    2. Evidence of the manuscript signature
      1. The identity of the person affixing the manuscript signature
      2. Intention to authenticate and adopt the document
  13. 4 Methods of authentication before manuscript signatures
    1. Objects as a means of authentication
    2. The seal
    3. Witnesses and scribes
    4. The sign of the cross
    5. The chirograph
  14. 5 Manuscript signatures
    1. Impression of a mark
      1. Bills of exchange
      2. An interest in real property
      3. Wills
      4. United States of America
    2. Illegible writing
    3. Assisted signature or mark
      1. Wills
    4. A name without a signature
    5. Mistake as to the name
    6. Variations of a name
      1. Voting
      2. Wills
      3. United States of America
    7. The use of initials
      1. Statute of Frauds
      2. Judicial use
      3. Wills
      4. Rights in property
      5. Voting
      6. Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990
      7. United States of America
    8. The use of a surname
      1. Statute of Frauds
      2. Deeds
    9. The use of a trade name
    10. A partial signature
    11. Words other than a name
    12. An identifying phrase
    13. Abbreviation of a name
  15. 6 Marks used as signatures
    1. A seal imprint
      1. Wills
      2. Interest in real property
      3. Court records
    2. The use of a fingerprint
    3. The use of a printed name
      1. Statute of Frauds
      2. Real property
      3. Public notices
    4. The use of a lithographed name
    5. The use of a rubber stamp
      1. Wills
      2. Voting
      3. Judicial use
      4. Statute of Frauds
      5. Ecclesiastical use
      6. Solicitors Act 1932
      7. Administrative use
      8. United States of America
    6. A stencil-pen
  16. 7 Mechanical signatures
    1. Signature machines
    2. Mechanical marks by human action
      1. Typewriting
      2. Telegram
      3. Telex
      4. Facsimile
  17. 8 The writing material
  18. 9 An incorrect signature and absence of a signature
  19. Index

Table of statutes

England and Wales

Bills of Exchange Act 18823 fn 12
Companies Act 1862
s9172
Companies Act 1985
s36881
Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Act 1871
s3556
s6056
Housing Repairs and Rents Act 195459
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990
sch 330–31
Interpretation Act 19786
Joint Stock Companies Arrangement Act 1870
s272
Law of Property Act 1925
s4070
Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989
s2(3) 30
Limitation Act 1980
s776
s29(5) 76
s3076
s30(1) 76
Local Government Act 1972
s234(2) 59
Municipal Corporation Act 1853
s3230
s14226
Parliamentary Voters Registration Act 1843
s1754
Public Health Act 1875
s26648
Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1854
s746 fn 37
Sale of Goods Act 1893
s447
Solicitors Act 1932
s6556
s65(2)(i)56
Solicitors Act 1974
s69(2) 37
Stamp Act 1891
s8071 fn 32
Statute of Frauds 1677
s447, 75
s1746
Statute of Merchants 128516
Water Resources Act 1991
(c 57) sch 46 fn 24
Wills Act 1837

Scotland

Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 187430 fn 78
Registration of Burgh Voters (Scotland) Act 1856
s463
sch A63
Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995
s7(2) 33

New Zealand

Contracts Enforcement Act 1956
s230, 67

South Africa

Companies Act 19733

United States of America

Oklahoma

Uniform Facsimile Signature of Public Officials Act 62 O.S.Supp.195960 fn 101

Statutory instruments

Companies Act 1985 (Electronic Communication) Order 2000, SI 2000/3373 81
Insolvency Rules 1986, SI 1986/1925
r 8.2(3) 79

Other enactments

England and Wales

County Court Rules 1889
order VI, r 1052

Singapore

Law Society Conditions of Sale 1981
condition 29(2) 79
condition (3) 79

Annotate

Next Chapter
The Signature in Law: From the Thirteenth Century to the Facsimile
PreviousNext
All rights reserved
Powered by Manifold Scholarship. Learn more at
Opens in new tab or windowmanifoldapp.org