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The point of a physical signature is not that anyone else can prove you signed something. It's that if you go to court, and the court asks if you have signed th
by marcus_holmes 6y ago
The point of a physical signature is not that anyone else can prove you signed something. It's that if you go to court, and the court asks if you have signed the document, you're committing perjury if you say "no" (assuming you did sign it). It's the act that's important, rather than the resulting scribble.
- combatentropy 6y agoI'm sorry, I don't understand. Well, I agree that it would be perjury. But then there would be no proof of perjury, and the perjurer would get away. That can't offer much assurance to the person accepting a signature. Besides, the argument applies to other signs of consent, like verbal consent. Suppose you give a verbal consent to an agreement and then renege. The other party drags you to court. The judge says, "Did you verbally consent to this contract?" Saying "no" likewise would be perjury.
- marcus_holmes 6y agoYes, exactly. It only comes up if there's a dispute over whether the document was signed. Because the signature itself is so easily forged, the entire legal process relies on people not perjuring themselves if asked if they signed a document or not.