Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site mot.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!mot!fred From: fred@mot.UUCP (Fred Christiansen) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Legal question on signatures Message-ID: <267@mot.UUCP> Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 15:45:59 EDT Article-I.D.: mot.267 Posted: Fri Sep 13 15:45:59 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 13-Sep-85 20:24:08 EDT References: <314@tekla.UUCP> <4206@alice.UUCP> <826@burl.UUCP>, <83@axiom.UUCP>, <1082@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: Motorola Microsystems, Phoenix AZ Lines: 15 i have had some banks tell i *must* endorse a check, even to deposit, whilst others have not quibbled over no signature on a deposit. is there some law reference i can throw at them the next they insist i endorse a check for deposit? as an aside: elementary school teachers try to teach you to write clearly, legibly, etc. so, my signature is fairly legible. oddly enough, i have been questioned by banks in Europe and Africa as to whether or not that really *was* my signature. why, it was legible! turns out, these places encourage one to come up with a complicated signature .. lots of zips, dips, and doo-dads. -- << Generic disclaimer >> Fred Christiansen ("Canajun, eh?") @ Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ UUCP: {seismo!terak, trwrb!flkvax, utzoo!mnetor, ihnp4!btlunix}!mot!fred ARPA: oakhill!mot!fred@ut-sally.ARPA AT&T: 602-438-3472