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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Reading a deed or other instrument to an llliterate or blind man (who is a party to it) in a false or deceitful manner, so that he conceives a wrong idea of ita tenor or contents.

See 5 Coke, 19; 6 Bast, 309; Hallenbeck v. Dewitt, 2 Johns. (N. Y.) 404.