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Misreading

Reading a deed or other lnstrument to an llliterate or blind man (who is a party to lt) in a false or deceitful manner, so that he conceives a wrong idea of its tenor or contents. See 5 Coke, 19; 6 East, 309; IIallenbeck v. Dewitt, 2 Johns. (N. ¥.) 404

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)