Mr. Joiner, you may be speaking of documents such as very old deeds
and mortgages bearing "LS".  Before copy machines, if there were
several people (usually intestate heirs), some of whom resided at some
distance from the land and all of whom were legally required to join
in the deed, someone would cause to be made to have made more than one
facsimile.  Those bore copied signatures and LS where seals would have
been.

It would have been highly improper to have created more than a single
deed, etc., with true signatures and seals, since that would create a
record that the land was conveyed more than once to different people
by the same person.   Those copies, even though in someone's original
handwriting and made with such as quill pens, still were mere copies
and conveyed or accomplished nothing legally, some of which have
survived.  Indeed I have one in my collection.  (Are you of the
Surry/IofW Joiners, please?)  Paul
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I have seen "LS" used on original documents in lieu of an actual seal.

Wm. Flake Joiner

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