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Questioned Document:
One in which the facts appearing therein are not true, and
are contested either in whole or in part with respect to its
authenticity, identity, or origin. It may be a deed, contract,
will, election ballots, marriage contract, checks, visas,
application form, certificates, etc.
Document:
Kinds of Documents:
Under the Philippine Law, the following are the four kinds
of documents:
Note:
1. Handwriting examination
a. examination of signatures and initials
b. examination of anonymous letters
c. hand printing examination
2. Typewriting examination
3. Examination of inks
4. Erasures, alterations or obliterations, etc.
5. Counterfeiting
DOCUMENT EXAMINATION
Objectives:
a. The objective is to furnish the investigator in the field
with sufficient background information concerning document
examination.
b. No attempt is made to provide detailed information
sufficient to qualify the investigator as an expert document
examiner.
Importance/Significance:
Purposes:
Definition of Terms:
Diacritic – “t” crossing and dots of the letters “I” and “j”. The
matters of the Indian script are also known as diacritic signs.
An element added to complete a certain letter, either a cross bar
or a dot.
Foot – the lower parts which rest on the base line. The small
letter “m” has three feet, and the small letter “n” has two feet.
Hump – upper portion of its letter “m”, “n”, “h”, “k”. The
rounded outside of the top of the bend stroke or curve in small
letter.
Pen Scope – Represents the reach of the hand with the wrist at
rest. It is the average scope or limits of the pen during the
process of writing with the wrist of the hand at still.
Shoulder – outside portion of the top curve, small letter “m” has
three shoulders and the small letter “n” has two, the small
letter “h” has one shoulder.
Kinds of Characteristics:
Pen Pressure – the average force with which the pen contacts the
paper may be estimated from the examination of the writing. Pen
pressure as opposed to pen emphasis deals with the usual of
average force involved in the writing rather than the period
increases.
Pen Pressure – the average force with which the pen contacts the
paper or the usual force involves in writing. This is one of the
most personal but somewhat hidden characteristics in writing.
Ratio of Writing – it is the relationship between the heights of
the short letters.
Speed of Writing – not every one writer as the same rate so that
consideration of the speed of writing may be a significant
identifying element. Writing speed cannot be measured precisely
form the finished handwriting but can be interpose in broad terms
of slow, moderates, or rapid.
Handwriting:
Hence as each writer has his own way of holding his hand,
manipulating the pen, and exerting pressure, the same pen in
different hands will produce entirely different strokes.
Kinds of Writing:
Development of Writing:
Handwriting Problems:
1. A signature contested by its author which in reality is
genuine and corresponds perfectly to the ordinary and habitual
signatures of that person.
2. A signature contested by its author which in reality was
written by him but in a way which was different from the ordinary
manner and which is more or less different from the common
genuine signatures of that person.
Writing Habits:
Stroke:
Motor Coordination:
Rhythm in Handwriting:
Lack of Rhythm:
Importance of Rhythm:
Letter of Connections:
Miscellaneous:
1. Canceled checks.
2. Signature cards for savings, checking and charge accounts and
safe deposit boxes.
3. Signed receipts for telegrams, special delivery or registered
letters, express and store packages, etc.
4. Business and personal letters.
5. Credit applications and cards.
6. Signature on sales slips, on job orders slips, requisition
slips, and purchase slips.
7. Leases, mortgages, agreements, bills of sale, contracts,
deeds, notes stock certificates and transfers and other legal or
business documents.
8. Court records and affidavits, such as naturalization papers,
bankruptcy proceedings, divorce papers, probated wills and estate
files, powers of attorney, etc.
9. Passports, marriage application, license and affidavits.
10. Driver automobile chauffeur, and other types of licensee
applications.
11. Application for gas, electricity, water and telephone
services.
12. Loan application and receipts.
13. Tax returns or affidavits.
14. Insurance and employment applications.
15. Records from currency exchanges, check cashing agencies and
pawnshop.
16. Time sheets, payroll, pay receipts and personal forms.
17. Barangay registrations, petitions.
18. Relief and unemployment and old age compensation records.
19. Signature for certain drug purchases, hotel registrations.
20. Church, club, professional society records.
21. Veteran records.
22. Fingerprint records.
23. School or university class records and cards.
24. Application for clearances like in the office of municipal
and city courts, city fiscals office, N.B.I. and other government
and private offices.
25. Application for firearms and licenses.
26. Application for commission and enlistments in the AFP and
foreign armed forces offices.
27. Application for export and import and dollar allocations
28. Identification cards.
29. Application for right like water rights, copyrights, patents,
franchises, etc.
30. Application for civil service examination, board and bar
examinations.
31. Application for scholarships.
32. Residence certificate, class A and B, reservist data sheet.
33. Others.
4. Condition under which both the questioned and the standard are
prepared.
a. Paper rested on the knee
b. Standing
c. Sitting
d. Lying down
e. Moving vehicle
- The document examiner must make a brief investigation into
the condition under which a document was written.
4. Make certain that each specimen contain the make, model and
serial number of the typewriter from which it was produced as
well as the date and initials of the offices.
Kinds of Disguises:
HANDWRITING IDENTIFICATION
Principle of Identification:
General Characteristics:
They might include an open top small letter “t” which occurs
in any rapid careless writings, proportion of all letters to
medium letters, slant connection and combination of letters.
Individual Characteristics:
They are characteristics which are the result of the
writer’s muscular control, coordination, age health, and nervous
temperament, frequency of writing, personality and character. No
two persons write alike. They are found in the following:
6. Skill – legibility and symmetry are the basis upon which one’s
skill or pictorial aspect is judged. Skill is classified as poor,
medium, and good.
10. Pen hold – this location of the shading can give clue to how
the fountain pen is held. If the pen is held pointing to the
right shoulder, shading appears fairly high or long the sides of
circular form. This is shown in small letter ‘d”. If the pen is
held pointing away from the right shoulder, shading tends to
appear at the top and the bottom of circular formation such as
small letters “o”, “a”, and “d”.
Causes of Variations:
Correct Conclusion:
1. Kinds of movement
a. Forearm
b. Whole arm
2. Quality of movement
a. Awkward, illiterate and uncertain.
b. Hesitating and painful due to weakness and illness.
c. Strong, heavy and forceful.
d. Nervous and irregular.
e. Smooth, flowing and rapid.
3. Speed
a. Slow and drawn
b. Deliberate
c. Average
d. Rapid
Definition of Signature:
A name or a mark that a person puts at the end of a document
to attest that he is its author or that he ratifies its contents.
Many persons who have done a lot of writing transform their name.
Letters become simplified or condensed, complex movement name.
This is now signature. It is mark but this mark is now personal.
It is a personal combination of strokes in which it is possible
to recognize the writer.
Classes of Signature:
Step 4 - Examine the beginning and ending lines, they are very
significant, determine whether the appearance blunt, club-shaped,
tapered or vanishing.
Indication of Genuineness:
a. Carelessness
b. Spontaneity
c. alteration of thick and thin strokes.
d. Speed
e. Simplification
f. Upright letters are interspersed with slanting letters
g. The upward strokes to a threadlike tracing.
h. Rhythm
i. Good line quality
j. Variation
Watermarks:
Discoloration:
Causes of Discoloration:
Quill Pens
It is a hollow, horny part of large feather usually from
goose and was used for writing on parchment. Poland, Germany,
Russia, and the Netherlands were the largest producers of quill.
Although quill pens can be made from the outer wing feathers
of any bird, those of goose, swan, crow and later turkey, were
preferred. The earliest reference (6th century A.D.) to quill pens
was made by the Spanish Theologian ST. ISIDORE OF SEVILLE, and
this tool was the principal writing implement for nearly 1300
years.
The first patented steel pen point was made by the English
engineer BRYAN DONKIN in 1803. The leading 19 th century English
pen manufacturers were WILLIAM JOSEPH GILLOT, WILLIAM MITCHELL,
and JAMES STEPHEN PERRY.
It was the first writing tool that had, the writing end
slightly worn like a brush. About 2,000 years B.C., this reed pen
was first used in NEAR EAST on papyrus and later on parchment.
Early ball point pens did not write well; they tended to
skip, and the slow-drying oil-based ink smudged easily. However,
the ball point pen had several advantages over the fountain pen:
a. The ink was waterproof and almost inerasable;
b. The ball point pen could write on many kinds of surfaces
and could be hold in almost any position for writing; and
c. The pressure required to feed the ink was ideal for
making carbon copies.
1. Indian Inks
The oldest form of Indian ink consisted of a suspension of
carbon black (soot or lampblack) in water to which glue or a
vegetable gum was added. Inks of this composition are still on
the market mostly in the shape of sticks or cakes. In modern
carbon ink, the glue or gum is replaced by a solution of shellac
in borax or ammonia. These inks are not affected by oxidants. It
is practically impossible to remove the last traces of the carbon
from the paper without causing damage to it.
5. Dyestuff Inks
These inks are composed of aqueous solutions of synthetic
dyestuffs, to which a preservative and a flux are added. The
writing qualities of the ink are improved by addition of
substances such as glycerol, glucose or dextrin.
The dark blue and black inks are often composed of four or
more dyes because no black dyestuff of sufficient tinctorial
capacity is known.
6. Water Resistant Writing and Drawing Inks
These inks are special group of dyestuff inks. They consist
of a pigment paste and a solution of shellac made soluble in
water by means of borax, liquid ammonia or ammonium bicarbonate.
Sometimes the pigment suspension is combined with acid or basic
dyestuff.
Typewriter Defined:
Evolution of Typewriters:
Platen – The cylinder which serve as the backing of the paper and
which absorbs the blow from the typeface.
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10. A group of muscles which push up the pen to form the upward
strokes.
a. Flaxen
b. Flexor
c. Extensor
d. Strokes
11. Who first invented the paper more than 2000 years ago?
a. Indians
b. Babylonians
c. Americans
d. Chinese
15. Term describe as: the typefaces become filled with lint,
dirt, and ink particularly in enclosed letters such as the o, e,
p, g, and others.
a. Clogged typeface
b. Horizontal mal-alignment
c. Defects
d. Mal-alignment
20. They are known writing which indicates how a person writes.
a. Standard
b. Exemplars
c. Natural writing
d. Letter a and b
24. The special way in which the various muscles used in writing
work together to produced written forms.
a. Rhythm
b. Motor coordination
c. Handwriting
d. Arcade
25. What was done, when one retouches or goes back over a
defective portion of a writing stroke?
a. Retracing
b. Patching
c. Pressuring
d. Shading
26. The flexor and extensor muscles when combined with numerical
muscles it forms what?
a. Lateral strokes
b. Diagonal strokes
c. Vertical strokes
d. Horizontal strokes
28. Writing is produced by the movement of the hand and arm and
also fingers in some cases.
a. Whole forearm movement
b. Hand movement
c. Forearm movement
d. Finger movement
36. It involves the actions of the entire arm without rest and is
employed in very large writing.
a. Finger movement
b. Forearm movement
c. Hand movement
d. Whole forearm movement
37. The cylinder which serves as the backing of the paper and
which absorbs the blow from the typeface is known as:
a. Pletesmograph
b. Roller
c. Cylinder cone
d. Platen
48. A group of muscles which push the pen to from the downward
strokes.
a. Extensor
b. Flexor
c. Flaxen
d. Rhythm
53. Strokes which goes back over another writing strokes and
which is slightly to occur due to lack of movement control?
a. Retouching
b. Retracing
c. Shading
d. Patching
58. Stroke where the motion of the pen precedes the beginning and
continues beyond the end to a vanishing point and are found on
free natural writing and as a rule are important indication of
genuineness.
a. Ending stroke
b. Flying starts and finish
c. Terminal stroke
d. Pen movement
59. What is that which widens the ink strokes due to the added
pressure on a flexible pen point?
a. Pen pressure
b. Shading
c. Pen lifting
d. Retouching
66. Paper which has been treated in such a way as to minimize the
change of a successful forgery by erasure, whether mechanical or
chemical, being carried out on any document of which it forms the
basis called:
a. Chemical paper
b. Safety paper
c. Tested paper
d. Polyethylene coated paper
71. This group of document includes those papers which the entire
writing is in question as spurious, forged or counterfeit in its
entirely fall into.
a. Wills and testaments
b. Questioned documents
c. Stroke of writing
d. None of the foregoing
103. Represents the reach of the hand with the wrist at rest.
a. Pen position
b. Pen emphasis
c. Pen pressure
d. Pen scope
104. Are meant to those grace lines, superfluous strokes and are
useful only for ornamentation are not essential to the legibility
of the signatures and usually occurs among writers who attempt to
express some phase of their personalities.
a. Diacritical marks
b. Embellishments
c. Idiosyncrasies
d. Flourishing strokes
105. The extra deposit of ink in the initial and terminal strokes
due to the slow withdrawal of the pen from the paper.
a. Hump
b. Hook
c. Knob
d. Foot
107. The main portion of the letter minus the initial end stroke.
a. Body
b. Beaded
c. Blunt
d. Beard
110. The process of making out what is eligible or what has been
effaced.
a. Decipherment
b. Cipherment
c. Decipher
d. Cipher
111. The average force with which the pen contacts the paper
maybe estimated from the examination of the writing.
a. Pen scope
b. Pen emphasis
c. Pen position
d. Pen pressure
117. The act of intermittently forcing the pen against the paper
surface with increase pressure.
a. Pen pressure
b. Pen scope
c. Pen Emphasis
d. Pen position
131. One in which the facts appearing therein are not true, and
are contested either in whole or in part with respect to its
authenticity.
a. Questioned Documents
b. Holographic Writing
c. Document
d. Notarial Will