 | 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;... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - Civil procedure - 1848 - 904 pages
...deemed sufficient, the name of the person making the mark being written near it, and the mark being witnessed by a person who writes his own name as a witness. §945. When it is necessary for any purpose, to have a person who is in prison in any part of the state,... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - Civil procedure - 1850 - 898 pages
...natural person ; writing includes printing or printed paper ; oath includes affirmation or declaration ; signature or subscription, includes mark, when the...by a person who writes his own name as a witness. The following terms also have in this code the signification attached to them in this section, unless... | |
 | New York (State). - Civil procedure - 1850 - 920 pages
...includes affirmation or declaration ; signature or subscription, includes mark, when the person-cannot write, his name being written near it, and witnessed...by a person who writes his own name as a witness. The following terms also have in this code the signification attached to them in this section, unless... | |
 | Kentucky - Session laws - 1851 - 544 pages
...the existing laws not inconsistent therewith. TITLE XVII. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION OF THIS CODE. bill. 211 and neuter ; the singular number includes the...tenements, and hereditaments. § 724. The words "personal property7' include slaves, money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of d~bt. § 725.... | |
 | California, Selucius Garfielde, Frederick A. Snyder - Law - 1853 - 1108 pages
...deemed sufficient, the name of the person making the mark being written near it, and the mark being witnessed by a person who writes his own name as a witness. SEC. 683. When it is necessary for any purpose to have a person Order to .... • 1110 « bring prisoner... | |
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... person" includes a corporation as well as a natural person; writing includes printing and typewriting; oath includes affirmation or declaration; and every mode of oral statement, under oath or affirmation, is embraced by the term "testify... 
