rjd@security.UUCP (Robert DeBenedictis) (01/11/84)
How inviolate is one's signature?
I mean: Can you wake up one day and just start signing
your name differently?
My last name (DeBenedictis) takes a significant amount of
time to sign. About three months ago, I decided that I
didn't have to be burdened with a lengthy, time-consuming
signature for the rest of my life. (I'm 21 now.) SO, I
changed my signature. Now, I only sign "DeBen." and I'm
wondering: Is someone gonna complain? Has anyone else
done this. In response to those who say that my signature
is "less secure" now: I still sign the "DeBen." in the same
style as I would if I were going to add the "edictis" on the
end. My signature is no less secure than that of someone with
a five-letter last name.
If I'm overlooking something ("WHAT!! you can't
change your signature!") let me know.
Disregarding Life, And All It's Conventions,
Robert DeBenedictisbch@unc.UUCP (Byron Howes ) (01/13/84)
My signature has not matched my name precisely for years, and I have never had problems. (My legal identificatory name is Byron C. Howes, but my signature is Byron Cole Howes III -- maybe important, maybe not.) As I understand it, one's signature is a legal 'mark' which need not match the legal name so long as the correspondence between the two is well-established. -- Byron Howes UNC - Chapel Hill (decvax!duke!unc!bch)