X-Mark Signature

What is ‘X-Mark Signature’

An X-mark made by a person in lieu of a signature. Due to illiteracy or disability, a person may be unable to append a full signature to a document as attestation that he or she has reviewed and approved its contents. In order to be legally valid, the X-mark signature must be witnessed.

Explaining ‘X-Mark Signature’

Due to the obvious potential for fraud, doubts may arise about the validity and enforceability of documents signed with X-mark signatures. In some U.S. states, for example, the law requires courts to invalidate wills signed with an X unless the testator was physically or mentally incapable of signing his or her full name.

Further Reading

  • Corporate Officers Beware-Your Signature on a Negotiable Instrument May Be Hazardous to Your Economic Health – heinonline.org [PDF]
  • Prospective service use and health care costs of Medicaid beneficiaries with treatment-resistant depression – www.jmcp.org [PDF]
  • Econophysics review: II. Agent-based models – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
  • Non-monotonic Security Protocols and Failures in Financial Intermediation – link.springer.com [PDF]
  • Risk models for trust-based access control (TBAC) – link.springer.com [PDF]
  • On the use of financial analysis tools for the study of Dst time series in the frame of complex systems – arxiv.org [PDF]
  • ASSESMENT OF THE NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF KALITI METAL PRODUCTS FACTORY BEFORE AND AFTER PRIVATIZATION – www.repository.smuc.edu.et [PDF]
  • Image-detected breast cancer: state of the art diagnosis and treatment – www.journalacs.org [PDF]
  • SME financing of Dhaka Bank Ltd.: financing entrepreneurs to enlarge SME industry – dspace.bracu.ac.bd [PDF]