SIGN

(A) contracts, evidence. A token of anything; a note or token given without words. 2. Contracts are express or implied. The express are manifested viva voce, or by writing; the implied are shown by silence, by acts, or by signs. (B) measures. In angular measures, a sign is equal to thirty degrees. Vide Measure. (C) mer. law. A board, tin or other substance, on which is painted the name and business of a merchant or tradesman. 2. Every man has a right to adopt such a sign as he may please to select, but he has no right to use another’s name, without his consent. See Dall. Dict. mot Propriete Industrielle, and the article Trade marks. (D) mer. law. A board, tin or other substance, on which is painted the name and business of a merchant or tradesman. 2. Every man has a right to adopt such a sign as he may please to select, but he has no right to use another’s name, without his consent. (D) To write one’s name to an instrument of writing in order to give the effect intended; the name thus written is called a signature. 2. The signature is usually made at the bottom of the instrument but in wills it has been held that when a testator commenced his will With these words;, I, A B, make this my will, it was a sufficient signing. 3. To sign a judgment, is to enter a judgment for want of something which was required to be done; as, for example, in the English practice, if he who is bound to give oyer does not give it within the time required, in such cases, the adverse party may sign judgment against him. To affix one’s name to a writing or instrument, for the purpose of authenticating it or to give it effect as one’s act. To “sign” is merely to write one’s name on paper, or declare assent or attestation by some sign or mark, and does not, like “subscribe,”” require that one should write at the bottom of the instrument signed.