This document defines various types of signatures and forgeries. It discusses evidential signatures, fraudulent signatures, freehand signatures, guided signatures, counterfeiting, falsification, and forgery. It then categorizes classes of forged signatures, including simulated forgery, traced forgery through direct and indirect tracing, and spurious signatures. Finally, it describes different types of traced signatures using carbon process, indentation process, and transmitted light process.
This document defines various types of signatures and forgeries. It discusses evidential signatures, fraudulent signatures, freehand signatures, guided signatures, counterfeiting, falsification, and forgery. It then categorizes classes of forged signatures, including simulated forgery, traced forgery through direct and indirect tracing, and spurious signatures. Finally, it describes different types of traced signatures using carbon process, indentation process, and transmitted light process.
This document defines various types of signatures and forgeries. It discusses evidential signatures, fraudulent signatures, freehand signatures, guided signatures, counterfeiting, falsification, and forgery. It then categorizes classes of forged signatures, including simulated forgery, traced forgery through direct and indirect tracing, and spurious signatures. Finally, it describes different types of traced signatures using carbon process, indentation process, and transmitted light process.
This document defines various types of signatures and forgeries. It discusses evidential signatures, fraudulent signatures, freehand signatures, guided signatures, counterfeiting, falsification, and forgery. It then categorizes classes of forged signatures, including simulated forgery, traced forgery through direct and indirect tracing, and spurious signatures. Finally, it describes different types of traced signatures using carbon process, indentation process, and transmitted light process.
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Coverage for P2 Oral Recitation
SIGNATURE defined – 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. EVIDENTIAL SIGNATURE - 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. FRAUDULENT SIGNATURE. A forged signature. It involves the writing of a name as a signature by someone other than the person himself, without his permission, often with some degree of imitation. FREEHAND SIGNATURE. A fraudulent signature that was executed purely by simulation rather than by tracing the outline of a genuine signature. GUIDED SIGNATURE. A signature that is executed while the writer’s hand or arm is steadied in any way. COUNTERFEITING - It is the crime of making, circulating or uttering false coins and banknotes. FALSIFICATION – The act/process of making the content/s of a document not the intended content. FORGERY – The act of falsely making or materially altering, with intent to defraud, any writing which if genuine, might be of legal efficacy or the foundation of a legal liability.
CLASSES OF FORGED SIGNATURES (CATEGORIES OF FORGERY OF
SIGNATURES
A. SIMULATED OR FREEHAND IMITATION FORGERY – executed purely
by simulation rather than by tracing the outline of a genuine signature can be referred to as freehand imitation or simulated forgery. a. DIRECT TECHNIQUE - forger works directly with ink. b. INDIRECT - forger works first with pencil and afterwards covers the pencil strokes with ink. B. TRACED FORGERY (TRACED SIGNATURE) a. DIRECT TRACING - tracing is made by transmitted light. b. INDIRECT TRACING - forger uses a carbon paper and places a document on which he will trace the forged signature under the document bearing the model signature with a carbon paper between the two. C. SPURIOUS SIGNATURE (SIMPLE FORGERY) - Forger does not try to copy a model but writes something resembling what we ordinarily call a signature. For this, he uses a false (spurious) name and makes a rapid stroke, disturbing his usual writing by adopting a camouflage called disguise.
The types of Traced Signatures are:
a) CARBON PROCESS (CARBON OUTLINE) – It denotes that the forgery interleaves a carbon paper between the genuine signatures (top sheet) and the document intended to be forged (bottom sheet). The outline of the model or genuine signatures is traced with a dry pen or any sharp pointed instrument with considerable pressure to make a carbon out line on the fraudulent document. b) INDENTATION PROCESS – is that type whereby indentations of canal-like outlines of the genuine signatures are produced by the fraudulent document (bottom sheet) by tracing the outline of the genuine signatures (top sheet) with considerable pressure with any sharp pointed instrument. The indented first retraced with pencil very lightly before it is finally “inked-in”. c) TRANSMITTED LIGHT PROCESS – fraudulent document is placed immediately above the genuine document (signature) and with strong light directed through the two superimposed sheets of paper from under with transparent glass used as writing surface, the outline which is seen thru the upper sheet is then traced with any suitable