Signing authority

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Once the shooting, and the shouting, is over, there is the delicate business of putting pen to paper, so the contracts so tortuously wrangled over can be scanned, circulated, copied, digitised, OCRed, metadata extracted, catalogued, logged filed and archived do they can be locked away in deep storage and never looked at again.

Part of that process is to validate the signatures appended to the document by your counterparty. There is a process of chasing down pre-prepared corporate secretarial certificates of incumbency