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I made my own property release, see the attachment. I'm using it since the beginning of the year, every agency was accepting, even iStock, when suddenly an editor at IS "discovered" that the "witness" section has no "date signed" field and therefore rejected the PR. (Note that other ~50 images were accepted by IS before the "discovery").

I started to download the property releases from agencies and saw that they all have "Date signed" field for "witness".

For me is completely illogical to use this field (even in model release forms).
When a witness "witnesses" the completion and signing of a model/property release, he/she must be there and watching, at the end he/she also signs the document, so the whole witnessing procedure MUST happen on the same day/hour and place.

What's the logic behind "Date signed"?

My advice is to just go with it instead of trying to apply logic.  I remember when iStock started rejecting releases because they didn't have my signature.  What was the point of that?  The release is giving me rights; what purpose does my signature serve?  But arguing got me nowhere, so I added my signature somewhere on the release and the crisis was averted.  Same thing with a date on the witness's signature.  Just add it before you submit the release and you'll be fine.

I'm reasonably sure every legal document needs a signature and date. At least in the UK.