Indorsement \In*dorse"ment\, n. [From Indorse; cf.
Endorsement.]
[Written also endorsement.]
1. The act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other
written instrument.
2. That which is written on the back of a note, bill, or
other paper, as a name, an order for, or a receipt of,
payment, or the return of an officer, etc.; a writing,
usually upon the back, but sometimes on the face, of a
negotiable instrument, by which the property therein is
assigned and transferred. --Story. Byles. Burrill.
3. Sanction, support, or approval; as, the indorsement of a
rumor, an opinion, a course, conduct.
Blank indorsement. See under Blank.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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