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If you want a visual representation on the document for your electronic seal, from the Fields palette on the left, select the Electronic Seal Fields tab then click and drag your electronic seal to add it to the active page. If you added recipients, select them in the list and add fields for them. Send the envelope.

The word ?SEAL? at the end of (or below) a signature line means 'signature'. For example, a mortgage note or Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Texas Deed of Trust will have ?(Seal)? at the end of the line for the borrower's signature. A person's signature is considered their seal.

At the moment, seals are utilized to authenticate documents like birth records, marriage records, and real property deeds. Furthermore, they are used for authenticating signatures which a Notary Public witnesses and also in the formalization of corporate documents.

Under common law, documents that were signed under seal were considered more reliable and therefore given greater deference and protection under the law primarily in the form of a longer statute of limitations ? much longer. In some states, the statute of limitations for contracts signed under seal is 20 years.

Seals are used primarily to authenticate documents, specifically those which carry some legal import.

Firstly, the following of the legal formality of affixing a seal to a document was evidence of the existence of a contract. Secondly, the need to use a seal ? widely known to have legal significance ? served to impress upon the parties the significance of the agreement being made.

Seals are used primarily to authenticate documents, specifically those which carry some legal import. There are two main ways in which a seal may be attached to a document.

The seal is used to execute a legal document or guarantee the document's authenticity. A seal is unique to a sealer and is used by government agencies, corporations and notaries public to show that the document is validly executed, acknowledged or witnessed. [Last updated in June of 2022 by the Wex Definitions Team]