Legal Question in Business Law in New York

If someone returned a confidentiality agreement to me that had their name typed where it should be signed does that have the same effect as if it were signed?


Asked on 2/09/11, 7:40 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Haber Law Offices of Michael S. Haber

A signature is a way of showing assent and, more than that, a way of proving that assent. If an agreement has merely a typed line with the person's name on it, and if you later needed to seek to bind that person to the contract, their denial that they ever assented to the agreement would provide you with no end of troubles.

In the end, a signature is a signature is a signature. And a typed line with a person's name is not a signature.

Good luck to you.

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Answered on 2/09/11, 7:56 am


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