Drafting Skills · glossary
A document signed in a formal way. A company signs one through two authorised signatories, or one director with a witness in the room. Version 1’s signature page came from a deed precedent, but the Agreement did not need to be a deed. Version 1, signature page · Chapter 10 · see Authorised signatory, Execution
Explained in Chapter 10, How to Sign a Contract: Execution and E-Signatures, of Drafting Skills.
The main page for this term is Deed, in M&A Foundations.
Version 1’s signature page came from a precedent for a deed (a formally signed document). It asked a director of each company to sign with a witness: a person who watches the signing and then signs to say so.Read Chapter 10, How to Sign a Contract: Execution and E-Signatures →
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