| California, Frank Prentiss Deering - California - 1886 - 958 pages
..." testify," and every written one in the term " depose;" " signature " or " subscription" includea mark, when the person cannot write, his name being...by a person who writes his own name as a witness. The following words, also, have in the code the signification attached to them in this section, unless... | |
| California - California - 1886 - 758 pages
...affirmation, is embraced by the term " testify," and every written one in the term "depose;" "signature" or "subscription" includes mark, when the person cannot write, his name being written near it, ¡tin I witnessed by a person who writes his own name as a witness. The following words also have in... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1044 pages
..."SIGNATURE." Code 1007, S l, provides, relative to the words used in the Code, that the word "signature" or "subscription" includes mark when the person cannot...by a person who writes his own name as a witness. Section 6172 requires wills to be in writing, signed by the testator, or some person in his presence,... | |
| Robert Thomas Devlin - Deeds - 1887 - 810 pages
...notes.2 § 238. Attestation by witness. — In several of the States signature is defined as including a mark, " when the person cannot write, his name being...by a person who writes his own name as a witness." The question as to whether it is essential that the witness should also write his name to insure the... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1048 pages
...there declared that in construing its provisions a signature or subscription shall be held to "include mark, when the person cannot write, his name being written near it, and witnessed by the person who writes his [own] name as a witness, " (Mansf. Dig. § 6344;) and it is argued from this... | |
| Joseph Fitz Randolph - Commercial law - 1888 - 848 pages
...near it and attested bv a witness, Flowers v. Bitting. 45 Ala. 448(1871). 'In California, "signature or subscription includes mark, when the person cannot...by a person who writes his own name as a witness" (1872 Tolit. Code \ 17 ; Civ. Code \ 5014; Code Civ. Proc. ? 10017; Penal Code ? 13007). In Indiana,... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 700 pages
...is declared that in construing its provisions a signature or subscription shall be held to "include mark, when the person cannot write, his name being written near it and witnessed by the person who writes his [own] name as a witness." Mansfield's Digest, sec. 6344. It is argued irom... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 994 pages
...MILLER. f« ABKAN8AS, 18.] EVIDENCE. — ARKANSAS STATUTE DEFINES SIGNATURE OK SUBSCRIPTION TO " INCLUDE MARK, when the person cannot write, his name being written near it, and witnessed by a person who wiites hia own name as a witness." Under this provision, such a signature is not to be taken, pritna... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 966 pages
...PASTE MILLER. [49 ARK A.NS4S, 18. J ARKANSAS STATUTE 1)EFIN ES SlONATTTBB OB SUBSCRIPTION TO MARX, when the person cannot write, his name being written near it, and witnessed by a person who wiites his own name as a witness." Under this provision, such a signature is not to be taken, prirna... | |
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