Privilege definition:
A special and exclusive legal advantage or right such as a benefit, exemption, power or immunity.
A special and exclusive legal advantage, allowance, permission or right such as a benefit, exemption, power or immunity.
Privileged Communication
n.These are conversations which are confidential in nature and are not to be disclosed in a legal proceeding under any circumstances.
The privilege also cannot be claimed in certain situations, such as where one spouse is subject to prosecution for crimes committed against the other or against the children of the couple.
LITIGATION PRIVILEGE - A type of immunity given for certain acts and statements taken in connection with the pursuit of litigation. It generally covers such things as liable and defamation.
Parliamentary privilege grants certain legal immunities for Members of both Houses which allow them to perform their duties without interference from outside the House.
Doctor-Patient Privilege See: physician-patient privilege
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Attorney-Client Privilege: Generally, all communications between an attorney and their client are privileged, that is they are entirely confidential, being given special protection under the law, ...
If a statement is made in certain contexts or in certain venues, the First Amendment may give the speaker an absolute defense to a charge of defamation. This privilege usually only exists in the government context; for example, ...
Privilege: The right a spouse has to make admissions to an attorney or counselor that can not be later used as evidence.
Pro Se Divorce: A divorce in which each spouse represents themselves in court without an attorney.
privileged communications - probable cause - A judicial finding that there exists reasonable grounds for belief that a person should be arrested or searched.
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Privilege - The right of a party to refuse to disclose a document or produce a document or to refuse to answer questions on the ground of some special interest recognised by law.
Privilege - A benefit or advantage to certain persons beyond the advantages of other persons, i.e., an exemption, immunity, power, etc.
Privilege: A benefit or right enjoyed by an individual, a group of people, a company, etcetera, not enjoyed by others; special dispensation; an exemption from the performance of some act that others are required to perform; an immunity.
Privilege
A benefit or immunity conferred by law.
Privileged Communication
A communication that is not admissible in evidence if made under circumstances in which the law recognizes a right of privacy, as between an attorney and a client.
PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATION: Conversation that takes places within the context of a protected relationship, such as that between an attorney and client, a husband and wife, a priest and penitent, and a doctor and patient.
privileged communications - Confidential communications to certain persons that are protected by law against any disclosure, including forced disclosure in legal proceedings.
privileged communication
n. statements and conversations made under circumstances of assured confidentiality which must not be disclosed in court.
Privilege - A right, power, or immunity held by a person or class beyond the course of law, such as the privilege against self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment.
privilege: An advantage not enjoyed by all; a special exemption from prosecution or other lawsuits. (See also immunity.)
probable cause: A reasonable basis for assuming that a charge or fact is well founded.
Privilege
A special and exclusive legal advantage or right, such as a benefit, exemption, power or immunity.
Term: Privileged Communication
Definition: A communication that is not admissible in evidence if made under circumstances in which the law recognizes a right of privacy, as between an attorney and a client.
BILL OF PRIVILEGE, Eng. law. A process issued out of the court against an attorney, who is privileged from arrest, instead of process demanding bail. 3 Bl. Com. 289.
Privileged Communication
A communication that is privileged may not be disclosed to a third party, even in the context of litigation.
The privilege that allows the president and other high officials of the executive branch to keep certain communications private if disclosing those communications would disrupt the functions or decisionmaking processes of the executive branch.
The privilege against self-incrimination means the right (with certain limitations) not to do or say anything which might later be used as evidence against you.
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FAIR
A privileged market. 2. In England, fairs are granted by the kings patent. 3. In the United States,... more ...
A right, privilege or interest limited to a specific use or control purpose which one party has in the land of another party and which run with the land and are not a personal right of an individual.
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Reporter's privilege
Definition
: a privilege protecting a reporter from compulsion to reveal information acquired in the course of gathering news ...
Husband-Wife Privilege:
A special right that married persons have to keep communications between them secret and even inaccessible to a court of law. It has always been held to be lifted where one spouse commits a crime on the other.
ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE - In all legal matters, the client (whether or not a party to litigation) has a privilege to refuse to disclose, and to prevent another from disclosing, a confidential communication between client and lawyer.
Client-solicitor privilege
A right that belongs to the client of a lawyer that the latter keep any information or words spoken to him during the provision of the legal services to that client, strictly confidential.
Self-incrimination, privilege against
The constitutional right of people to refuse to give testimony against themselves that could subject them to criminal prosecution. The right is guaranteed in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
TOP Patent : An exclusive privilege granted to an inventor to make, use or sale an invention for a set number of years (eg. in Canada, 17 years).
In England and some other Commonwealth jurisdictions, a legal distinction is made between solicitors and barristers, the former with exclusive privileges of giving oral or written legal advice, ...
The grant of a charter is one of the exclusive privileges of the crown, and the crown has from time to time exercised it in furtherance of trading enterprise. Examples of such grants are the Merchant Adventurers of England, chartered by Richard II.
in law, the qualified privilege of a landowner to use the water adjacent to or flowing through his property.
In the Roman government, seems to have designated a person who had the freedom of the city, and the right to exercise all political and civil privileges of the government.
Solicitor-Client PrivilegeThe confidentiality of communications between a lawyer and client where they relate to seeking, forming, or giving legal advice.
Trusty: An inmate granted special privileges.
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Remedy - Legal or judicial means by which a right or privilege is enforced or the violation of a right or privilege is prevented, redressed, or compensated.
Remittitur - The reduction by a judge of the damages awarded by a jury.
Latinitas or Ius Latii: The Latin rights. Allowed privileges such as inter-marriage and the right to commerce with Romans to certain communities as a stepping stone to citizenship. It did now allow for the right to vote.
Estate tax- Generally, a tax on the privilege of transferring property to others after a person's death. In addition to federal estate taxes, many states have their own estate taxes.
unequal treatment in employment opportunity (such as promotion, pay, benefits and privileges), and expectations due to attitudes based on the sex of an employee or group of employees.
Without prejudice - A declaration that no rights or privileges of the party concerned are waived or lost. In a dismissal these words maintain the right to bring a subsequent suit on the same claim.
Naturalization - Process by which a person acquires nationality after birth and becomes entitled to privileges of citizenship.
Negligence - Failure to use care which a reasonable and prudent person would use under similar circumstances.
option 1 : the power or right to choose ;also : a choice made or available 2 : a privilege of demanding fulfillment of a contract on any day within a specified time 3 : a contract conveying in exchange ...
In other contexts, the term refers to whether further rights or privileges will be affected; e.g.
Emancipated Minor: A person under the legal majority age of 18 who is granted most rights and legal privileges of an adult (C.G.S.§46b-150, et seq.).
(FOIA) is the act which allows access to most public records, with exceptions for reasons that can include protection of national security, trade secrets, law enforcement records, attorney-client privilege, invasion of personal privacy, ...
Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution states, "The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." ...
hearsay or privileged communications. Relief Relief may come in many forms. Relief from judgment, which is to reduce or cancel a judgment. Relief from stay, which is to allow the parties to proceed after the court has entered a stay order.
without prejudice - Where an offer or admission is made "without prejudice," or a motion is denied or a suit dismissed "without prejudice," it is meant as a declaration that no rights or privileges of the party concerned are to be considered as ...
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