a signing of a person's name at the bottom of an act or deed, wrote by his own hand.

in Scots law. See Law, Tit. xii. 24.

in printing, is a letter put at the bottom of the first page at least, in each sheet, as a direction to the binder in folding, gathering, and collating them. The signatures consist of the capital letters of the alphabet, which change in every sheet: if there be more sheets than letters in the alphabet, to the capital letter is added a small one of the same sort, as A a, B b; which are repeated as often as necessary. In large volumes it is usual to distinguish the number of alphabets after the first three or four, by placing a figure before the signature, as 5 B, 6 B, &c.