sign manual

noun

, plural signs manual.

a personal signature, especially that of a sovereign or official on a public document.

sign manual

law a person's signature in his own hand, esp that of a sovereign on an official document

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

It was therefore obligatory that purchasers should know his work, that in fact his sign manual should be always present.

It was, therefore, more in the construction and workmanship then, that the sign manual was perceptible.

A deed, with the royal sign-manual, conveyed Vauvert to the monks of St Bruno.

"Chegonoe" witnesses the sign manual of his Sachem, who was present, on the confirmation deed of July 4, 1657.

Before this vision there rose up in him the ardent impulse to immediate effort which is the sign manual of the man of action.

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