Thesaurus: privileged
of Privilege
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Definitions
- imp. & p. p. of Privilege
- a. Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity.
- adj. blessed with privileges
- adj. not subject to usual rules or penalties
- adj. confined to an exclusive group
- Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. (Law) (a) A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his legal adviser, or by persons to their religious or medical advisers. (b) A communication which does not expose the party making it to indictment for libel, -- such as those made by persons communicating confidentially with a government, persons consulted confidentially as to the character of servants, etc. -- Privileged debts (Law), those to which a preference in payment is given out of the estate of a deceased person, or out of the estate of an insolvent. Wharton. Burrill. -- Privileged witnesses (Law) witnesses who are not obliged to testify as to certain things, as lawyers in relation to their dealings with their clients, and officers of state as to state secrets; also, by statute, clergymen and physicans are placed in the same category, so far as concerns information received by them professionally.
- Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right,advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. (Law) (a) Acommunication which can not be disclosed without the consent of theparty making it, -- such as those made by a client to his legaladviser, or by persons to their religious or medical advisers. (b) Acommunication which does not expose the party making it to indictmentfor libel, -- such as those made by persons communicatingconfidentially with a government, persons consulted confidentially asto the character of servants, etc.-- Privileged debts (Law), those to which a preference in payment isgiven out of the estate of a deceased person, or out of the estate ofan insolvent. Wharton. Burrill.-- Privileged witnesses (Law) witnesses who are not obliged totestify as to certain things, as lawyers in relation to theirdealings with their clients, and officers of state as to statesecrets; also, by statute, clergymen and physicans are placed in thesame category, so far as concerns information received by themprofessionally.
- j:100 a. blessed with privileges s. not subject to usual rules or penalties