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.
 3. A signature contested by its author which in reality was written by a third person
and which is a forgery written in an attempted imitation of a model.
 4. A spurious signature written by somebody who did not attempt to imitate the
signature of a person and who uses a fictitious name and this to give his work the
appearance of a signature.
 5. An uncontested signature, in fact, genuine but written by an unknown person
whose name must be deciphered by the document examiner.
Writing Habits

 learned in the early years are those habits which are part of a basic system or
which are modifications of the system of writing found among so large a group of
writers that they have only slight identification value.
Class and Individual Characteristics of
Handwriting
 Class Characteristics are those writing features common to a group i.e. the
common pattern of handwriting, letters, their shape which are limited to a group,
age or language. In simple words , it is nothing but copy book format i.e a model
which is taught to us when we learn the writing process which is almost similar to
a class of people (kids in school of a particular region. )
 Individual characteristics, on the other hand, occur when a letter departs from
its usual copybook form. These elements of writing constitute the basis of all
handwriting identifications. Those particular aspects or features of writing that are
peculiar to a specific writer
individual characteristic

 Characteristics those are limited only to a specific writer. This makes

handwriting unique. Characters that expert looks for: Skills , Slant, Movement,
Proportions Height, Dot, Crossing, Loops, Pressure, Alignment, Pen jumps , pen
Speed, Entry/Exit Strokes, Retracing, Spacing, Format etc.