CHAPTER 3 MIDTERMS Flashcards
(8 cards)
Forged signature where no attempt has been made to make a copy or facsimile of the genuine signature of the person purporting to have signed the document.
SIMPLE FORGERY
Forged signature which closely resembles the genuine signature since they have been produced by tracing process.
TRACED FORGERY
Forged signature which resembles the genuine signature written free-hand.
COPIED OR SIMULATED FORGERY
Is very necessary and useful in every questioned document examination, especially for those who are required to present the facts in a court or any investigative body or agency.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Serves as a record of the initial condition of a questioned document.
PHOTOGRAPH
Made by an ordinary eraser can sometimes be shown very clearly and recorded in permanent form by a photograph taken with the paper placed obliquely to the plane of the kens and plate inclined at just the right angle of reflection so as to show differences in the reflected light from different portions of paper surface.
ERASURES BY ABRASION
Is useful in the examination of watermarks, determining the identity or the difference in papers by showing arrangements of the fibers and the markings of the wire gauge and dandy roll.
TRANSMITTED LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY
Shows condition of writing in three dimensional enlargements and is useful in showing sequences of cross lines or showing writing across a fold preceded or followed by the folding of a paper.
STEREOGRAPHIC PHOTOMICROGRAPH