Show subscribed or many are the pitfalls which lie in the path of the man who sits down to make his will in a case recently tried in the probate court the witnesses were stated in the usual words to have hereunto subscribed their names but it happened that these witnesses signatures were written in the margin and somewhat higher than these attesting words hence arose the grave question could a signature be said to be subscribed when strictly it wb it is easy to conceive a badge of rigidly logical tendencies who would have de aided that there had been in this case no proper attestation fortunately sir 0 parker butt forti fied by a decision of lord campbell decided that though it might seem a strange interpretation to put upon the word subscribe to hold that writing the witnesses names above the testator s signature in the margins was a compliance with the act yet in the eye of the law the word subscribe simply means signing the name without any reference to its position on the document london news |