Why are our names in ALL CAPS in all of our legal documents and/or business related?

Question

"In order to rightly comprehend a thing, inquire first into the names, for rightful knowledge of things depends upon their names.”

You have been deceived and betrayed! Suffice it to say that you have been swindled, out of nothing less valuable, than your birthright and your sovereignty... simply through the largely overlooked, corruption of your name.

Your name is a legal expression of who you are. How it is written has legal and lawful significance. “John Henry Doe” signifies a true name written in accordance with the rules of English grammar and prescriptions of law, “JOHN HENRY DOE,” on the other hand, does not. A harmless variant of the original? Just for clarity or readability?

click here to read more....

http://www.worldnewsstand.net/law/U-Inc.htm

Look at your Driver's Licence, Bills, Court Fees, Tickets, anything that has to do with business period. Your name is ALL CAPS!

I challenge you to prove me wrong on that. Look at ALL BUSINESS names in all bills and all that is related to business and NAMES! They are ALL CAPS! Stay ignorant...whatever man...

Don't be lazy and read the website on this link:

http://www.worldnewsstand.net/law/U-Inc.htm

Answer 1

No, the font or case does not have legal significance.

Your name is the same, whether written in Arial font versus Times versus ALL CAPS versus all smalls versus MiXeD CaPs. Or any other variant.

The name is put in all caps in many legal documents because when the tradition started, there wasn't the option for bold or italics, so caps and underline where the only two forms of emphasis.

And your generalization about "anything that has to with business " is so far from being correct that it's funny. My name appears on my bills in many different forms, and most of them are not all upper case.

{EDIT}

The reason many older databases used all caps is because earlier database programs did not have the ability to do a case independent search. So, to ensure that a search would always find the name, they standardized all entries to upper case.

Answer 2

It's done that way by custom and there's a practical use too -- people over 40 can figure out where they're supposed to sign without finding their reading glasses.

Answer 3

Becuase when they serach for us in their database , they use caps so instead of

John Smith its JOHN SMITH.

Yes it does make a diffrent when they search.

Answer 4

Very GOOD observation; how true. I hope others will consider this question!