Do you legally have to sign your actual name?

Beekay

When you sign anything,is it the law that you have to sign your actual name?
Would i be able to sign things with my nickname for example,but as long as i used that for everything i sign,Would it be legal?

Sandals

no its not, for example you could draw; venetian blinds, upside down.

Time Magazine

I signed my South Western Health Board card "Mickey The Loveable Mouse". True story.

Sandals

Angry Banana wrote:

I signed my South Western Health Board card "Mickey The Loveable Mouse". True story.

Oh is that your catchphrase? i have a thread in after hours about them, check it out.

slipss

Beekay wrote:

When you sign anything,is it the law that you have to sign your actual name?
Would i be able to sign things with my nickname for example,but as long as i used that for everything i sign,Would it be legal?

You can sign anything you want, or sign lots of different things for different documents or just put an X or a scribble. As long as you yourself can testify that you made the mark its legal. (and in some cases it must be witnessed).

Binomate

slipss wrote:

You can sign anything you want, or sign lots of different things for different documents or just put an X or a scribble. As long as you yourself can testify that you made the mark its legal. (and in some cases it must be witnessed).

Cool, I'm going to start using Aindriú or George Bush as my name now.

morlan

Might come and bite you on the ass should you ever need to prove something in court using signature evidence.

Our man in Havana

What annoys me is banks wanting a signature when lodging money. All I will do is a scribble for them. F'em

Sparky

Bond-007 wrote:

What annoys me is banks wanting a signature when lodging money. All I will do is a scribble for them. F'em

what, that never happens to me.

seamus

For the purposes of some documents (marriage certs, birth certs etc), you may need to prove that it is your normal signature. For legal documents where you are asked to print your name in block letters, you must use your legal name or a registered pseudonym.

WizZard

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Two great pranks about signing different signatures!

Duffman

You can sign your will with an X. Again the important thing isn't the kind of mark you made, it's that people saw you make it.

joe_chicken

WizZard wrote:

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Morning Reading 2

Two great pranks about signing different signatures!

I had to laugh at the matrix one....... hahahaha

think i'm gonna start using that one

stevenmu

Beekay wrote:

When you sign anything,is it the law that you have to sign your actual name?
Would i be able to sign things with my nickname for example,but as long as i used that for everything i sign,Would it be legal?

With many documents, knowingly signing them with a false name could be considered fraud.

Then again, if you really want to go around signing things with your nickname, you're probably too young to sign anything of importance anyway

Beekay

stevenmu wrote:

With many documents, knowingly signing them with a false name could be considered fraud.

Then again, if you really want to go around signing things with your nickname, you're probably too young to sign anything of importance anyway

I just used the nickname thing as an example.

Sam Vimes

my local chinese will take a credit card number over the phone. then they bring the slip to your house and you sign it and thats it. they never even see the card. so i signed D Duck

The Bollox

WizZard wrote:

Morning Reading
Morning Reading 2

Two great pranks about signing different signatures!

now THAT was funny!!! I nearly crapped meself

Fajitas!

I usually sign things as Albertos, as apposed to Alan.

Now I recieve phonecalls from Guiness testing, looking for an Albertos... Makes me smile every time.

Sparky

i signed in a jewelers last year, with a complete scribble, seriously it didnt look like anything (damn cold hands) and the cashier said she couldnt accept that signature, so on the phone to the bank i went and handed the mobile over to her and the lad told her that she should know that if she witness's you putting pen to paper that authorises her to finish the transaction.

So for the laugh, ill have to find a shop without chip and pin and sign sparky