Handwriting - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: handwritingHandwriting, comparison of
Handwriting, comparison of, allowed by s. 8 of the (English) Criminal Procedure Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 18), which applies to all Courts of Judica-ture, as well criminal as others, and to all persons having by law or consent of parties authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence, and enacts that:Comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the Judge to be genuine shall be permitted to be made by witnesses; and such writings, and the evidence of witnesses respecting the same, may be submitted to the Court and jury as evidence of the genuineness or otherwise of the writing in dispute....
Experts
Experts, referred in Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), s. 45.The witnesses who give evidence upon matters of their own professional knowledge, as distingui-shed from particular matters of fact, e.g., professed judges of handwriting, foreign lawyers as to foreign law (see Re Turner, 1906 WN 27), or doctors as to the effects of drugs or poisons. The admissibility of such evidence rests upon the maxim cuilibet in sua arte est credendum.Regarding Court Experts, see R.S.C.Ord. XXXVIIA. An arbitrator under the (English) Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 36), cannot by virtue f Schedule I. (5) of that Act hear expert witnesses except by direction of the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. See Best on Evidence; as to privilege of expert on handwriting, see Seaman v. Netherclift, (1876) 2 CPD 53; and as to the caution with which well-paid expert evidence is to be accepted as proof, see per Jessel, M.R., in Lord Abinger v. Ashton, (1873) LR 17 Eq. 358....
holograph
holograph [Late Latin holographus, from Late Greek holographos, from Greek holos whole, complete + graphein to write] : a document (as a will or a deed) entirely in the handwriting of the person whose act it purports to be ho·lo·graph·ic [hō-lə-gra-fik, hÄ -] adj ...
Chirography
The art of writing or engrossing handwriting as skilled in chirography...
graphoanalysis
The art of judging of a persons character disposition and aptitude from his handwriting also called graphology As a discipline the modern form was developed by Milton Newman Bunker in the period after 1915...
graphology
The art of judging of a persons character disposition and aptitude from his handwriting called graphoanalysis by its practitioners Though its practitioners consider it a science it is widely considered a pseudoscience as is astrology...
Handwriting
The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person chirography...
Holograph
A document as a letter deed or will wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be...
Illegible
Incapable of being read not legible as illegible handwriting an illegible inscription...
Isography
Imitation of anothers handwriting...
- << Prev.
- Next >>
Sign-up to get more results
Unlock complete result pages and premium legal research features.
Start Free Trial