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4 - Signature Examination

A signature serves to acknowledge authorship or ratify the contents of a document. Over time through frequent writing, a person's signature can become a personalized mark unique to them. A forged signature is one written by someone other than the person it is meant to represent. Fraudulent signatures are simulated rather than traced from a genuine signature. Historically, illiterate people would use a cross or crude X to authenticate documents. A signature provides evidential details about the signer such as when and where it was written, their mental and physical state, and reasons for signing.

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4 - Signature Examination

A signature serves to acknowledge authorship or ratify the contents of a document. Over time through frequent writing, a person's signature can become a personalized mark unique to them. A forged signature is one written by someone other than the person it is meant to represent. Fraudulent signatures are simulated rather than traced from a genuine signature. Historically, illiterate people would use a cross or crude X to authenticate documents. A signature provides evidential details about the signer such as when and where it was written, their mental and physical state, and reasons for signing.

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Signature Investigation

 It is the name of a person written by him/her in a


document as a sign of acknowledgement. Or, it is a
name or a mark that a person puts at the end of a
document to attest that he is its author or that he
ratifies its contents.
 Many persons who have done a lot of writing transform
their name. Letters become simplified or condensed,
complex movement appears. This is now a signature.
 It is mark but this mark is now personal. It is a personal
combination of strokes in which it is possible to
recognize the writer.
 A forged signature. It involves the writing of a name
as a signature by someone other.

 A fraudulent signature that was executed purely by


simulation rather than by tracing the outline of a
genuine signature.

Fraudulent Signature
Historically, many who could not write signed
with a cross mark or crude X. This authenticating
mark is still used today by illiterates, and if properly
witnessed, it can legally stand for a signature.

Cross mark
 It is not simply a signature – it is a signature,
signed at a particular time and place, under
particular conditions, while the signer was at
particular age, in a particular physical and mental
condition, using particular implements, and with a
particular reason and purpose for recording his
name.

Evidential Signature
 A fraudulent signature that was executed purely by
simulation rather than by tracing the outline of a
genuine signature.
 Imitated signature

Freehand Signature
 A signature that is executed while the writer ’s hand or
arm is steadied in any way. Under the law of most
jurisdictions such a signature authenticates a legal
document provided it is shown that the writer requested the
assistance.
 Guided signatures are most commonly written during a
serious illness or on a deathbed.

Guided Signature
 A genuine signature that has been used to prepare an
imitated or traced forgery.

Model Signature

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