Benjamin Wright Symbolic Quotations

What Congress did was much more symbolic than it was substantive. The law has not changed, because the law has always said that a signature is a symbol adopted with someone's intent to comply. It could be an X, a thumbprint, or even your company letterhead. The legal issue has always hinged on what you intend.

What Congress did was much more symbolic than it was substantive, ... The law has not changed, because the law has always said that a signature is a symbol adopted with someone's intent to comply. It could be an X, a thumbprint, or even your company letterhead. The legal issue has always hinged on what you intend.