#antedata

• To antedate — To put a date on a deed, document, letter, or any other instrument that is prior to the actual date on which it was drawn up, signed, or executed. This action can be performed either for legitimate administrative purposes (to align the legal effects of an agreement) or illegally (constituting forgery of private or official documents).
• Antedating — The act of antedating and its result; the application on a document, deed, or instrument of a date prior to the one on which it was actually drafted or signed. Within forensic or criminalistic investigations, the identification of backdating is performed through advanced analytical techniques that determine the degradation of the paper or the real age of the ink.
• Antedated — Bearing a date prior to the one on which it was actually drawn up, signed, or executed. The term applies to documents, contracts, invoices, or letters whose temporal coordinates have been intentionally advanced, either to align the legal effects of a retrospective agreement or for fraudulent purposes.
• Antedating — The act of antedating and its result; the assignment to an official document, contract, legal act, or letter of a date prior to the actual date on which it was drawn up or effectively signed. This structural process may be carried out for the purpose of regularizing retroactive administrative situations or it may represent an illegal alteration of chronology for deceptive purposes.
• Antedated — Bearing a date prior to the one on which it was actually drawn up, signed, or registered; inscribed with a retroactive chronology. In a technical and legal sense, it describes the status of a document whose formal effects have been brought forward in time, either out of a legitimate procedural need or as a result of a forgery.