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Definition

Signatory

The person or organization who actually signs a document.

In Depth

If your name goes on the line, you are the signatory. The word applies equally to an individual signing a lease and to a government signing a treaty. In an electronic signing, the signatory is whoever the system asks to apply a signature.

Consistent across the US, UK and EU. It is a plain-English term, not a region-specific legal definition. One footnote: EU and UK eIDAS use the closely related word "signatory" in their own text to mean the natural person who creates the signature.

Sources

  1. Merriam-Webster Dictionary  - a signer with another or others; especially: a government bound with others by a signed convention.