| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 666 pages
...Practice, in laying .down the rules for its construction, defines signatures or subscriptions to " include mark, when the person cannot write, his name being...by a person who writes his own name as a witness." Mansf. Dig., sec. 6344. In Watson v. Billings, 38 Ark., 278, it is said by Mr. Justice EAKIN that since... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1842 - 742 pages
...Civil Code, in laying down rules of construction, (Gantt's Digest, sec. 5625 ) provides "that the word 'signature' or 'subscription' includes 'mark' when...being written near it and witnessed by a person who wiites his own name as a witness." This was not necessary at common law to constitute a signature by... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 738 pages
...write, and shall write their names thereto. Section 1, defining words used in the Code, enacts : " ' Signature,' or ' subscription,' includes mark, when...name being written near it, and witnessed by a person ivho writ-en his oivn name as a witness." Section 1535 enacts : " Conveyances for the alienation of... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 818 pages
...to make legal. When a party cannot write his own name, he must make his " mark ;" his name must be written near it, and "witnessed by a person who writes his own name us a witness," in order to make the signature complete and legal. — O'Neal v. Bobinaon 526 5. Same;... | |
| Kentucky - Law - 1851 - 548 pages
...person includes a corporation as well as a natural person ; writing includes printing or printed paper; signature or subscription includes mark, when, the...by a person who writes his own name as a witness. § 722. The terms explained in the following sections of this chapter have, in this code, the significations... | |
| Kentucky - Session laws - 1851 - 544 pages
...person includes a corporation as well as a natural person ; writing includes printing or printed paper; signature or subscription includes mark, when, the...by a person who writes his own name as a witness. § 722. The terms explained in the following sections of this chapter have, in this code, the significations... | |
| California - Civil procedure - 1858 - 320 pages
...or printed paper ; oath to include affirmation or declaration ; signature or subscription to include mark when the person cannot write, his name being...by a person who writes his own name, as a witness. 648. The following statutes, namely : the Act entitled " An Act to regulate proceedings in civil cases... | |
| California - Civil procedure - 1860 - 388 pages
...or printed paper; oath to include affirmation or declaration ; signature or subscription to include mark when the person cannot write, his name being...by a person who writes his own name, as a witness. 648. The following statutes, namely : the act entitled " an act to regulate proceedings in civil cases... | |
| Idaho (Ter.) - Law - 1864 - 762 pages
...or printed paper; oath to include affirmation or declaration; signature or subscription to include mark •when the person cannot write, his name being...by a person who writes his own name as a witness. SEC. 592. In all cases where an undertaking with sureties • is required by the provisions of this... | |
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