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Signing, to write one's name is signature. S. 3(56) of the General Clauses Act has extended its meaning with reference to a person who is unable to write his name to include 'mark' with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, Hindustan Construction Co. v. Union of India, AIR 1967 SC 526 (527). [Arbitration Act, 1940, s. 14(2)]...
Sign-manual
Sign-manual. 1. The royal signature. Sometimes required by statute as evidence of the authority of the sovereign, e.g., by the Jud. Act, 1925, s. 4 (2), replacing Jud. Act, 1873, s. 31, interference to the transfer of a judge of the High Court from one division thereof to another. Towards the end of the reign of King George the Fourth, the royal signature was, in consequence of the king's illness, by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 23, authorized to be affixed for him by commission.2. The signature of any one's name in his own handwriting....
Re sign
To affix ones signature to a second time to sign again...
Frauds, Statute of
Frauds, Statute of, 29 Car. 2, c. 3 (A.D. 1676). This famous statute is said to have been famed by Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Keeper Guilford, and Sir Leoline Jenkins, an eminent civilian. Lord Nottingham used to say of it, that 'every line was worth a subsidy,' and it has been said that at all events the explanation of every line has cost a subsidy, no statute having been the subject of so much litigation. The statute, though it does not apply or have any Act corresponding to it in Scotland, was practically copied by the Irish Parliament in 7 Wm. 3, c. 12, applies generally to the British colonies, and, remarks Mr. Chancellor Kent (2 Com. 494, n. (d), 'carries its influence through the whole body of American juris-prudence, and is in many respects the most comprehensive, salutary, and important legislative regulation on record affecting the security of private rights.'The main object of the statute was to take away the facilities for fraud and the temptation to perjury which arose in verb...
Deed
Deed [fr. d'd, Sax.; ded gaded, Goth.;daed, Dut.], a formal document on paper or parchment duly signed, sealed, and delivered. It is either an indenture (factum inter partes) needing an actual indentation [(English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 5], reproduced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 56 (2), made between two or more persons in different interests, or a deed-poll (charta de una parte) made by a single person or by two or more persons having similar interests. By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 57, a deed may be described according to the nature of the transaction, e.g., 'this lease,' 'this mortgage,' etc., or as a 'deed' and not habitually by the word 'indenture.'The requisites of a deed are these:-(1) Sufficient parties and a proper subject of assurance.(2) It must be written, engrossed, printed, or lithographed, or partly written or engrossed, and partly printed or lithographed in any character or in any language, on paper, vellum, or parchm...
Counter-sign
Counter-sign, the signature of a secretary or other subordinate officer to anywriting signed by the pricnipal or superior to vouch for the authenticity of it; e.g., the order of a towncouncil for payment of money out of the borough fund must be singed by three members of the town council,and counter-signed by the townclerk, by (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 187, replacing (except as to London) Municipal Cor-porations Act, 1882, s. 141.Also the password in response to a military challenge by a sentinel or guard.To 'countersign' means 'to sign opposite to along side of or in addition to another signature 'or' to add one's signature to a document (already signed by another) for authentication or confirmation', M. Duraiswamy v. Murugan Bus Service, 1986 Supp SCC 1: AIR 1986 SC 1980 (1989). [Motor Vehicles Act, (4 of 1939), s. 63(1)]...
Bill of Lading
Bill of Lading, a memorandum signed by masters of ships, in their capacity of carriers, acknowledging the receipt of merchants' goods, of which there are usually three parts-one kept by the consignor, one sent to the consignee, and one preserved by the master. It is the evidence of the title to the goods shipped; and by its endorsement and delivery, the transfer of the property in the goods specified therein is generally effected. By the Bills of Lading Act, 1855, the rights of suit under a bill of lading vest in the consignee or endorsee (as if the contract contained in the bill of lading had been made with himself) without prejudice to any right of stoppage in transitu or to freight. See (English) Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1924 (14 & 15 Geo. 5, c. 22), and Carver on Carriage by Sea.A bill of lading is 'a writing, signed on behalf of the owner of the ship in which goods are embarked, acknowledging the receipt of the goods, and undertaking to deliver them at the end of the voyage s...
Procuration
Procuration, an agency, the administration of the business of another; also moneys which parish priests pay yearly to the bishop or archdeacon, ratione visitationis; these are also called proxies, and it is said that there are three sorts--ratione visitationis, consuetudinis, et pactiHardr. 180Bills of Exchange may be drawn, accepted, or endorsed by procuration, i.e., by an agent who has an authority for such a purpose, and 'a signature by procuration operates as notice that the agent has but a limited authority to sign, and the principal is only bound by such signature if the agent in so signing was acting within the actual limits of his authority.'--Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 25. The words 'per pro.' Or 'p.p.' (by procuration) usually follow the signature of an agent, and by s. 26 of the Bills of Exchange Act, a person signing a bill and adding words indicating that he signs in a representative capacity is not personally liable on the bill....
octothorp
A typographic symbol having two vertical lines intersected by two horizontal lines It is also called the crosshatch hash numeral sign and number sign in the U S it is commonly called the pound sign especially to designate the symbol as used on digital telephone dials but this can be confusing to Europeans who think of the pound sign as the symbol for the British pound It is commonly used as a symbol for the word number as in 36 meaning number thirty six...
Semeiological
Of or pertaining to the science of signs or the systematic use of signs as a semeiological classification of the signs or symptoms of disease a semeiological arrangement of signs used as signals...
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