When you lend, have the borrower sign a paper before witnesses

A borrower may not lend the thing he borrowed.

I had pencil and paper ready and put my hand out to sign,

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

When there are factual disputes, it's better to have live witnesses.

INS has asked Lazaro Gonzalez to sign a piece of paper guaranteeing that he'll do anything they tell him to do. No attorney would ever advise a client to sign such an open-ended guarantee.