It was not necessary that a will be signed in England until the year 1837. The signing of the will by the testator is now required in all the states of this country.

A will may be signed either by the testator, or by some person in his presence and at his express request. Any completed mark or design made by the testator upon the material upon which the will is written with the intention that it should stand for his signature is sufficient.4 "Custom controls the rule of names, and so it does the rule of signatures. So the form which a man customarily uses to identify and bind himself in writing is his signature, whatever shape he may choose to give it. What, therefore, shall constitute a sufficient signature must largely depend on the custom of the time, and the place, the habit of the individual and the circumstances of each particular case." 5

1 Dench vs. Dench, 2 P. D., 603; Henshaw vs. Foster, 9 Picker-ling (Mass.), 312.

2 Harris vs. Pive, 39 Md., 535;

Myers vs. Vanderbelt, 84 Pa. St., 510. 3 Reed vs. Woodward, 11 Phila. (Pa.), 541.

In the absence of express statutory requirements to this effect the signature need not be at the end of the will; a signature in any place will be sufficient.6