Can an illiterate person who signs a document even though he does not understand the meaning of the document?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Summer v. Sapkos, 1955 CanLII 219 (SK CA):
There is no allegation that the defendant’s signature to the document was procured by fraud. In the absence of proof of fraud a person who is informed of the contents of a document the full effect of which he does not understand may be bound by it if he signs it even though illiterate. See Howatson v. Webb [1908] 1 Ch 1, 77 LJ Ch 32.
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