Post by @bloor@bloor.tw

2026-09-23 19:05 UTC

Tell a lawyer that a document was signed on one date but actually dated on another date entirely, and a frown is the best you can hope for. Unless they are a conveyancing lawyer in which case they encourage that every day. It feels quite odd that the financially largest purchase most of us will ever make usually rests on a document signed in a way that would usually be unacceptable.

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@bloor@bloor.tw 2026-09-23 19:07

Every single time I’ve transacted a property they have said “sign, but don’t date *here* , *here* , *here*” etc, the idea being that they then add the dates later, to suit the transaction. What a weird thing! The date is SUPPOSED to be the date you actually signed it, by any other convention. Is there an explicit law that prevents what might otherwise be (almost) a kind of fraud?

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@etchedpixels@mastodon.social 2026-09-23 21:40

@bloor@bloor.tw Everything about UK house buying is broken pretty much. Cameron and the RICS have a lot to answer for killing off the last attempt to reform it.

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@tautology@infosec.exchange 2026-09-23 21:48

@bloor@bloor.tw what I don't get that, in a world that has had a way of digitally signing things for 25+ years we're still signing documents with ink. My signature is just a random squiggle nowadays, I couldn't reproduce it even if I tried.

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