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Privileged communication

Privileged \Priv"i*leged\, a. Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. (Law)

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

Usage examples of "privileged communication".

I'm not spilling any privileged communication when I say that-nor do I know of any Canon which forbids me to say that I am damn sick of both Mrs.

In other words, if the defendant should be on the stand and I asked her what her attorney told her, that would be calling for a privileged communication, but with Lieutenant Tragg on the stand, I may ask him what the defendant _said_ in regard to her actions and in regard to explanation.

That was a privileged communication, whose source I may not reveal unless that witness is called before this court and gives me leave.

Anything I learn will be a privileged communication, and I shall not be judgmental or feel shocked by anything you say.

Come on-we'll call this a privileged communication-elder adviser and all that sort of rot.

Ingenescu said, Of course, what you tell me as a Social Scientist is a privileged communication.

If it should appear, as I think it will appear, that he also represented Winifred Laxter, the Court will hold as a privileged communication anything which Winifred Laxter may have said to him.

Anything she tells me is a privileged communication, and no power on earth can unseal my lips.

So my first advice to you is to keep it a privileged communication.