. Inasmuch as each person
has a peculiar muscular co-ordination that is manifested in the
production of habitually written signatures, so each forger from the
same cause has an individual habit that must be used when simulating;
hence there will be as many styles of writing manifested in production
of forgeries as there are forgers to produce them. No positive rule
can be laid down for the classification of their peculiarities
excepting the manner of accuracy with which the simulation appearing
in them is done. Each case of disputed writing must be examined by
itself, and while there are certain process steps to be followed which
experience suggests as facilitating the analysis, yet the examiner
must wholly depend upon what is seen in the disputed signature that
is, or is not, found in the admittedly genuine writing of the person
whose signature is questioned, and the comparison of the one with the
other.

Reproduced signatures often show a copying effort that is manifested in
the details of their production. These evidences generally appear, in
some instances, as pauses made in the lines connecting the letters of
the signature, where the pen rested while the eye of the forger was
directed from the writing being done to the copy, that the writer could
fix in the mind the form of a succeeding letter. These pauses appear in
different measure of prominence in different forgeries, and there is no
rule as to their measure or appearance. With some forgers the pen rests
with considerable emphasis and with others it is lifted from the paper
and returned to the paper while the eye of the writer goes back to the
copy. With others there will appear but little hesitancy. Some forgers,
well skilled in the art, will, by practicing the simulation until they
have the form of the genuine signature well fixed in the mind, become
enabled to produce a forged copy of a genuine signature that will show
no pauses--hence the absence of pauses is not proof of the genuine
character of a signature. Another common characteristic of forged and
reproduced signatures and particularly such of them as are not traced
and are produced by persons not skilled in the art is found in the
studied appearance which they have, as if written under restraint, and
without the apparent freedom consequent upon habitual writing. Another
characteristic of forged signatures that are not traced from a genuine
signature is that they are written with greater length in prop