BLIND. One who is deprived of the faculty of seeing.
2. Persons who are blind may enter into contracts and make wills like
others. Carth. 53; Barn. 19, 23; 3 Leigh, R. 32. When an attesting witness
becomes blind, his handwriting may be proved as if he were dead. 1 Stark.
Ev. 341. But before proving his handwriting the witness must be produced, if
within the jurisdiction of the court, and examined. Ld. Raym. 734; 1 M. &
Rob. 258; 2 M. & Rob. 262.