A Treatise on Disputed Handwriting and the Determination of Genuine from Forged Signatures; The Character and Composition of Inks, and Their Determination by Chemical Tests; The Effect of Age as Manifested in the Appearance of Written Instruments and Documents
Marshall D. Ewell, William E. Hagan · The American Law Register and Review · 1894
CHAPTER II.Forgeries, and the modern facilities for producing them -What a majority of the more important ones consist of -The changes in the rules of evidence as to the comparison of handwriting by juries -The origin of the common-law rule, relating to expert evidence, its character and value -Bank tellers and bank cashiers as experts in handwriting -Cause of opposite expert opinions 24-34 CHAPTER III.Why persons write differently -How the writing habit develops with individual character -When and under what circum- stances the writing habit becomes a reflex or mechanical capacity -Typical variation in writing of the same person -Effect of practice and different systems of penmanship in modifying or changing individual habit 37 _ 5 2 CHAPTER IV.How individual habit becomes manifested in writing-Why there can be no rule for determining personal characteristics other than that which relates to their difference in each person's writing from that of every other -Personal characteristics in the writing of an individual always typical of each other, as to cause and why -The necessity of understanding the muscular functions of the hand and forearm to reach a proper understanding as to the cause of personal details in the writ- ing -The function of hand and forearm in writing -The manner of moving and holding the pen determined by the appearances in the writing consequent upon it -Pen pres-