indorsement
nounSuperscription; a noting of the contents of any paper on its back; a docketing; briefing.
nounIn law, an incidental or subsidiary writing upon the back of a paper, writing, or other document, to the contents of which it relates or pertains.
nounMore specifically In commercial law: The signature of the payee of a note, bill, or check, or that of a third person, written on the back of the note or bill in evidence of his transfer of it, or of his assuring its payment, or both.
nounThe transfer or assurance so manifested.
nounRatification; sanction; approval.
nounThe act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other written instrument.
nounThat which is written on the back of a note, bill, or other paper, as a name, an order for, or a receipt of, payment, or the return of an officer, etc.; a writing, usually upon the back, but sometimes on the face, of a negotiable instrument, by which the property therein is assigned and transferred.
nounSanction, support, or approval.
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