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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

one who is deprived of the faculty of seeing. Persons who are blind may enter into contracts and make wills like others.

Carth. 53; Barn. 19, 238.

When an attesting witness becomes blind, his handwriting may be proved as if he were dead.

1 Stark. Ev. 341.