Disputed Handwriting: An Exhaustive, Valuable, and Comprehensive Work Upon One of the Most Important Subjects of To-dayHarvard book Company, 1909 - 304 Seiten |
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Disputed Handwriting / an Exhaustive, Valuable, and Comprehensive Work Upon One Jerome Buell Lavay Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2014 |
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Seite 216 - Comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the Judge to be genuine shall be permitted to be made by witnesses; and such writings, and the evidence of witnesses respecting the same, may be submitted to the Court and jury as evidence of the genuineness, or otherwise, of the writing in dispute.
Seite 216 - A person is said to be acquainted with the handwriting of another person when he has seen that person write, or when he has received documents purporting to be written by that person in answer to documents written by himself or under his authority and addressed to that person, or when, in the ordinary course of business, documents purporting to be written by that person have been habitually submitted to him.
Seite 216 - A person is deemed to be acquainted with the handwriting of another person when he has at any "5 time seen that person write, or when he has received documents purporting to be written by that person in answer to documents written by himself or under his authority, and addressed to that person, or when in the ordinary course of business, documents purporting to be written by that person have been habitually submitted to him.
Seite 236 - He always keeps a good balance — sometimes way up in the thousands — and deports himself in such a manner as to lead to the belief that he...
Seite 88 - All evidence of handwriting, except where the witness sees the document written, is in its nature comparison. It is the belief which a witness entertains upon comparing the writing in question with an exemplar in his mind derived from some previous knowledge.
Seite 215 - When there is a question as to any point of science or art, the opinions upon that point of persons specially skilled in any such matter are deemed to be relevant facts. Such persons are hereinafter called experts. The words "science or art...
Seite 87 - Greenwich county court, a plaintiff on one occasion denied most positively that a receipt produced was in his handwriting. It was thus worded, 'Received the Hole of the above.
Seite 209 - ... should be said here, however, that the average bank cashier or teller bases his opinions and his identifications generally upon the ' pictorial effect ' without recourse to those minuter and more delicate points upon which the skilled expert rightly places the greatest reliance. Such testimony cannot be compared for accuracy or value with that of the scientific investigator of handwriting." The examination of handwritings which a banker or business man carries out in his daily duties is not an...
Seite 146 - ... hydrochloric or oxalic acid is very precarious, because the thickness of the ink film in a written character is not always the same, and the acid bleaches the thinner layer sooner than the thicker. The determination of the age of a written paper is a problem difficult of solution. According to F. Carre the age can be approximately determined if the characters written in iron ink are pressed in a copying press and a commercial hydrochloric acid diluted with eleven parts of water is substituted...
Seite 214 - ... derived in their absence. The parts of a writing which demand the closest attention are those which have been made unconsciously and which are not easily noted by a superficial view. The height, the spread of the letters, the peculiarities of the endings, the flourishes, and the general shape are things which the forger observes and imitates, often with success; but the curvature of a letter in its different parts is not easily appreciated by the naked eye. There are but few laws in the United...