Signature in Law: From the Thirteenth Century to the Facsimile
Publisher: London: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies,Publication Website: https://ials.sas.ac.uk/oa/publications/signature-law
Coverage: 1v. London: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2022
Additional Info: This book explores the judicial development of the concept of the signature from the thirteenth century to the age of the facsimile transmission. It puts the concept of the signature into a broad legal context to set out the purposes that can be attributed to a signature, and to explain the functions a signature is capable of performing. Drawing on cases from common law jurisdictions across the world, the book demonstrates that judges expanded the meaning of a signature as technologies developed and were used in unanticipated ways.