First Grading

Question 1

refers to any material containing marks, signs or symbols either visible, partially visible or invisible which furnish or convey information, meaning or message to a person. It is any written statement by which a right is established or an obligation is extinguished

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DOCUMENT

Question 2

The term document came from the Latin word “documentum”, which means “lesson, or example.” It was derived also from the French word “docere”, which means to teach.

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true

Question 3

any document in which contents appearing therein are questionable, seemingly untrue, or contested either in whole or in part with respect to their authenticity, identity or origin.

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QUESTIONED DOCUMENT

Question 4

refers to the scientific process of investigating questioned/disputed documents. It includes the scrutiny of the writing materials and instrument used, ink, handwriting and other marks that may affect the authenticity of the document.

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QUESTIONED DOCUMENTS EXAMINATION

Question 5

any document which was completely handwritten and signed by one person. In a number of jurisdictions, a holographic will can be probated without anyone having witnessed its execution.

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HOLOGRAPH DOCUMENT

Question 6

refers to a personnel of crime laboratory who specialized in document examination. The examiner is responsible in Handwriting Identification and is capable of more than just questions of authorship limited only by their access to laboratory equipment. The old term for this was Handwriting Expert.

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DOCUMENT EXAMINER

Question 7

a person who focuses on the money trail and criminal intent of the person using the document being questioned.

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FRAUD INVESTIGATOR

Question 8

refers to a person who has expertise on date, type, source, and/or catalogue various types of paper watermarks, ink, printing/copy/fax machines computer cartridges, etc. using chemical methods.

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PAPER AND INK SPECIALIST

Question 9

is a person who analyses altered, obliterated, changed, or doctored documents and photos using infrared lighting, expensive spectography equipment, or digital enhancement techniques.

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FORGERY SPECIALIST

Question 10

is a person who is expert on the origin, make and model of typewriters and documents produced from it.

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TYPEWRITING ANALYST

Question 11

is the result of a very complicated series of acts treated as a whole, a combination of certain forms of visible mental and muscular habits acquired by long painstaking effort. ——— is sometimes called BRAINWRITING.

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HANDWRITING

Question 12

is the study and analysis of handwriting to assess the writer’s traits or personality.

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GRAPHOLOGY

Question 13

examines handwritings and tells the personality of a person based from handwriting characteristics.

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Graphologist or Grapho-analyst

Question 14

is the study of documents and writing materials to determine their genuineness or authorship.

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BIBLIOTICS

Question 15

is the study of ancient writing that is concerned with inscription on stone, clay tablets, bone, metal, bamboo strips and other surfaces. This came from the Greek term “Palaios” which means Old Writings.

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PALEOGRAPHY

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refers to lines that form a character.

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STROKE

Question 17

as used in questioned document examination, refers to letters, numbers, punctuations, symbols, and ornaments.

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CHARACTER

Question 18

are those documents that are notarized by a notary public or competent public official with solemnities required by law

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PUBLIC DOCUMENTS

Question 19

are instrument issued by the government or its agents or its officers having the authority to do so and the offices, which in accordance with their creation, they are authorized to issue and be issued in the performance of their duties

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OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

Question 20

are deeds or instruments executed by a private person without the intervention of a notary public or other persons legally authorized, and which proves same disposition or agreement as evidenced or set forth therein.

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PRIVATE DOCUMENTS

Question 21

are documents that are regulated by the Code of Commerce and mercantile law. These documents are those that (People vs. Co Beng, CA., 40 O.G. 1913) or any other commercial law.

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COMMERCIAL DOCUMENTS

Question 22

is any disconnected style of writing or junction broken. This is being learned by school children who are just beginning to write. When a person expresses his/her own idea into writing.

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SCRIPT (also known as manuscript or functional writing) -

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• most parts are joined together by a junction connection. It is used by most adults. This is used when script/manuscript writing is mastered.

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CURSIVE (also known as conventional or running writing)

Question 24

is characterized by all capital or uppercase letters. This originates from the Japanese.

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BLOCK (also known as printed writing)

Question 25

– A system of writing that involves pictures or logos in constructing words, believed to be the first system of writing which was very difficult to learn and write and can give relatively few pronunciation clues. Simply, every picture/symbol represents an idea.

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LOGOGRAPHIC SYSTEM

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– A system of writing which was developed by a Japanese Cherokee Sequoya. This ancient system of writing was first used in writing and recording his native language.

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SYLLABARY SYSTEM

Question 27

– This is the system of writing considered to be the most difficult to invent but very easy to use. This ———— was invented by the SEMETIC People at about 1500 BC, The PHOENICIANS developed the alphabet further. The GREEK took it over from the Phoenicians, and the ROMANS borrowed it from the Greeks and have it well developed until it was spread out entire the world.

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ALPHABETIC SYSTEM

Question 28

– prehistoric people drew pictures of wild animals on the walls of caves and rock shelters that tell the story of how they hunted for food.

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CRUDE WRITING

Question 29

The Sumerians invented a system of writing that used wedged-shaped symbols called

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CUNEIFORM

Question 30

are people who are knowledgeable in writing. They offer service to people who would want to send letters to others. They make this service as a way of living.

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SCRIBES

Question 31

refers to the in printing, it refers to straight up-and-down letters.

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ROMANS

Question 32

– a term used by printers that refers to the slanted style of letters similar to those used in cursive writing.

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ITALIC

Question 33

are those muscles that function when the pen forms the upward strokes.

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EXTENSOR MUSCLES

Question 34

are those that function when the pen forms the downward strokes.

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FLEXOR MUSCLES

Question 35

are those that function when the pen performs horizontal/across strokes.

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BICEP/ LUMBRICAL MUSCLES