Blind
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The condition of one who is deprived of the faculty of seeing. Persons who are blind may enter into contracts and make wills like others; Carth. 53; Barnes, 19; Boyd v. Cook, 3 Leigh (Va.) 32. When an attesting witness becomes blind, his handwriting may be proved as if he were dead; 1 Starkie, Ev. 341. But before proving his handwriting the witness must be produced, if within the jurisdiction of the court; 1 Ld. Raym. 734; 1 Mood. & R. 258. It is not negligence for a blind man to travel along a highway; Sleeper v. Town of Sandown, 52 N. H. 244..