Definition of Priveleged
Priv"i*leged (?), a. 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Past tense of to privilege.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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