special individual right not enjoyed by others; benefit, right, advantage; prerogative, benefits given only to people of a particular group; immunity from legal prosecution
grant special rights, give special advantages or benefits; provide immunity from legal prosecution; exempt, release from a particular obligation
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Privilege Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
Privilege Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.
To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.
(v. t.)
To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
(n.)
See Call, Put, Spread, etc.
See Call, Put, Spread, etc.
(n.)
A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.
privilege
\priv"i*lege\ (?), n. [f. privilège, l. privilegium an ordinance or law against or in favor of an individual; privus private + lex, legis, law. see private, and legal.]
1. a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise. he pleads the legal privilege of a roman. --kettlewell. the privilege birthright was a double portion. a people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties.
2. (stockbroker's cant) see call, put, spread, etc.
similar words(5)
writ of privilege
informer`s privilege
breach of privilege
question of privilege
water privilege
A right or immunity not enjoyed by all, or that may be enjoyed only under special conditions.
Anmri = a. void of privilege
Braint = n. privilege
Breinio = v. to give privilege
Breintlys = n. privilege court
Gorfraint = n. superior privilege
Noun
1. a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all
(hypernym) advantage, vantage
(derivation) favor, favour
2. a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males"
(synonym) prerogative, perquisite, exclusive right
(hypernym) right
(hyponym) easement
(derivation) favor, favour
3. (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship
(hypernym) right
(hyponym) attorney-client privilege
(classification) law, jurisprudence
Verb
1. bestow a privilege upon
(synonym) favor, favour
(hypernym) permit, allow, let, countenance
Privilege Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries
Those rights and immunities enjoyed by the House as a collectivity and by each Member individually, without which Members could not carry out their duties and the House could not fulfil its functions.
Compare: contempt of Parliament; personal privilege.
Under the authority of the Clerk of the House of CommonsCompare: contempt of Parliament; personal privilege.
I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.
Privilege Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Privilege Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
A privilege is a special entitlement to immunity granted by the state or another authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis. It can be revoked in certain circumstances. In modern democratic states, a privilege is conditional and granted only after birth. By contrast, a right is an inherent, irrevocable entitlement held by all citizens or all human beings from the moment of birth. Various older privileges, such as the old common law privilege to title deeds, may still exist, but be of little relevance today. Etymologically a privilege (privilegium) means a "private law", or rule relating to a specific individual or institution. Boniface's abbey of Fulda, to cite an early and prominent example, was granted privilegium, setting the abbot in direct contact with the pope, bypassing the jurisdiction of the local bishop.
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Privilege Definition from Law Dictionaries & Glossaries
PRIVILEGE, PRIVLEGE - civil law. A right which the nature of a debt gives to a creditor, and which entitles him to be preferred before other creditors.
Creditors of the same rank of privileges, are paid in concurrence, that is, on an equal footing. Privileges may exist either in movables, or immovables, or both at once. They are general or special, on certain movables. The debts which are privileged on all the movables in general, are the following, which are paid in this order. 1. Funeral charges. 2. Law charges, which are such as are occasioned by the prosecution of a suit before the courts. But this name applies more particularly to costs, which the party cast has to pay to the party gaining the cause. It is in favor of these only that the law grants the privilege. 3. Charges, of whatever nature, occasioned by the last sickness, concurrently among those to whom they are due; see Last sickness. 4. The wages of servants for the year past, and so much as is due for the current year. 5. Supplies of provisions made to the debtor or his family during the last six months, by retail dealers, such as bakers, butchers, grocers; and during the last year by keepers of boarding houses and taverns. 6. The salaries of clerks, secretaries, and other persons of that kind. 7. Dotal rights, due to wives by their hushands.
The debts which are privileged on particular movables, are, 1. The debt of a workman or artizan for the price of his labor, on the movable which he has repaired, or made, if the thing continues still in his possession. 2. That debt on the pledge which is in the creditor's possession. 3. The carrier's charges and accessory expenses on the thing carried. 4. The price due on movable effects, if they are yet in the possession of the purchaser; and the like.
Creditors have a privilege on immovables, or real estate in some, cases, of which the following are instances: 1. The vendor on the estate by him sold, for the payment of the price, or so much of it as is due whether it be sold on or without a credit. 2. Architects and undertakers, bricklayers and other workmen employed in constructing, rebuilding or repairing houses, buildings, or making other works on such houses, buildings, or works by them constructed, rebuilt or repaired. 3. Those who have supplied the owner with materials for the construction or repair of an edifice or other work, which he has erected or repaired out of these materials, on the edifice or other work constructed or repaired.
mar. law. An allowance to the master of a ship of the general nature with primage, being compensation or rather a gratuity customary in certain trades, and which the law assumes to be a fair and equitable allowance, because the contract on both sides is made under the knowledge such usage by the parties.
rights. This word, taken its active sense, is a particular law, or a particular disposition of the law, which grants certain special prerogatives to some persons, contrary to common right. In its passive sense, it is the same prerogative granted by the same particular law.
Examples of privilege may be found in all systems of law; members of congress and of the several legislatures, during a certain time, parties and witnesses while attending court; and coming to and returning from the same; electors, while going to the election, remaining on the ground, or returning from the same, are all privileged from arrest, except for treason, felony or breach of the peace.
Privileges from arrest for civil cases are either general and absolute, or limited and qualified as to time or place.
In the first class may be mentioned ambassadors, and their servants, when the debt or duty has been contracted by the latter since they entered into the service of such ambassador; insolvent debtors duly discharged under the insolvent laws; in some places, as in Pennsylvania, women for any debt by them contracted; and in general, executors and administrators, when sued in their representative character, though they have been held to bail.
In the latter class may be placed, 1st. Members of congress this privilege is strictly personal, and is not only his own, or that of his constituent, but also that of the house of which he is a member, which every man is bound to know, and must take notice of. The time during which the privilege extends includes all the period of the session of congress, and a reasonable time for going to, and returning from the seat of government. The same privilege is extended to the members of the different state legislatures.
- 2d. Electors under the constitution and laws of the United States, or of any state, are protected from arrest for any civil cause, or for any crime except treason, felony, or a breach of the peace, eundo, morando, et redeundo, that is, going to, staying at, or returning from the election.
- 3d. Militia men, while engaged in the performance of military duty, under the laws, and eundo, morando et redeundo. - 4th. All persons who, either necessarily or of right are attending any court or forum of justice, whether as judge, juror, party interested or witness, and eundo, morando et redeundo.
Ambassadors are wholly exempt from arrest for civil or criminal cases.
PRIVLEGE - Obs. A private LAW applicable to one person, or a group of persons, or a social body.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
Courtesy of the 'Lectric Law Library.Creditors of the same rank of privileges, are paid in concurrence, that is, on an equal footing. Privileges may exist either in movables, or immovables, or both at once. They are general or special, on certain movables. The debts which are privileged on all the movables in general, are the following, which are paid in this order. 1. Funeral charges. 2. Law charges, which are such as are occasioned by the prosecution of a suit before the courts. But this name applies more particularly to costs, which the party cast has to pay to the party gaining the cause. It is in favor of these only that the law grants the privilege. 3. Charges, of whatever nature, occasioned by the last sickness, concurrently among those to whom they are due; see Last sickness. 4. The wages of servants for the year past, and so much as is due for the current year. 5. Supplies of provisions made to the debtor or his family during the last six months, by retail dealers, such as bakers, butchers, grocers; and during the last year by keepers of boarding houses and taverns. 6. The salaries of clerks, secretaries, and other persons of that kind. 7. Dotal rights, due to wives by their hushands.
The debts which are privileged on particular movables, are, 1. The debt of a workman or artizan for the price of his labor, on the movable which he has repaired, or made, if the thing continues still in his possession. 2. That debt on the pledge which is in the creditor's possession. 3. The carrier's charges and accessory expenses on the thing carried. 4. The price due on movable effects, if they are yet in the possession of the purchaser; and the like.
Creditors have a privilege on immovables, or real estate in some, cases, of which the following are instances: 1. The vendor on the estate by him sold, for the payment of the price, or so much of it as is due whether it be sold on or without a credit. 2. Architects and undertakers, bricklayers and other workmen employed in constructing, rebuilding or repairing houses, buildings, or making other works on such houses, buildings, or works by them constructed, rebuilt or repaired. 3. Those who have supplied the owner with materials for the construction or repair of an edifice or other work, which he has erected or repaired out of these materials, on the edifice or other work constructed or repaired.
mar. law. An allowance to the master of a ship of the general nature with primage, being compensation or rather a gratuity customary in certain trades, and which the law assumes to be a fair and equitable allowance, because the contract on both sides is made under the knowledge such usage by the parties.
rights. This word, taken its active sense, is a particular law, or a particular disposition of the law, which grants certain special prerogatives to some persons, contrary to common right. In its passive sense, it is the same prerogative granted by the same particular law.
Examples of privilege may be found in all systems of law; members of congress and of the several legislatures, during a certain time, parties and witnesses while attending court; and coming to and returning from the same; electors, while going to the election, remaining on the ground, or returning from the same, are all privileged from arrest, except for treason, felony or breach of the peace.
Privileges from arrest for civil cases are either general and absolute, or limited and qualified as to time or place.
In the first class may be mentioned ambassadors, and their servants, when the debt or duty has been contracted by the latter since they entered into the service of such ambassador; insolvent debtors duly discharged under the insolvent laws; in some places, as in Pennsylvania, women for any debt by them contracted; and in general, executors and administrators, when sued in their representative character, though they have been held to bail.
In the latter class may be placed, 1st. Members of congress this privilege is strictly personal, and is not only his own, or that of his constituent, but also that of the house of which he is a member, which every man is bound to know, and must take notice of. The time during which the privilege extends includes all the period of the session of congress, and a reasonable time for going to, and returning from the seat of government. The same privilege is extended to the members of the different state legislatures.
- 2d. Electors under the constitution and laws of the United States, or of any state, are protected from arrest for any civil cause, or for any crime except treason, felony, or a breach of the peace, eundo, morando, et redeundo, that is, going to, staying at, or returning from the election.
- 3d. Militia men, while engaged in the performance of military duty, under the laws, and eundo, morando et redeundo. - 4th. All persons who, either necessarily or of right are attending any court or forum of justice, whether as judge, juror, party interested or witness, and eundo, morando et redeundo.
Ambassadors are wholly exempt from arrest for civil or criminal cases.
PRIVLEGE - Obs. A private LAW applicable to one person, or a group of persons, or a social body.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
A special and exclusive legal advantage or right such as a benefit, exemption, power or immunity. - (read more on Privilege)
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the right a spouse has to make admissions to an attorney or counselor that can not be later used as evidence.
Refers to evidence based on private communications made within legally recognized "confidential relationships," such as marriage, attorney-client,patient-psychiatrist,and priest-penitent. It also includes the privilege against "self incrimination" which can be asserted by a party accused of adultery where adultery is considered a crime.
Under the rules of evidence, matters are excluded, no matter how relevant to the case, if obtained through these confidential relationships. The rules are technical and vary state to state. Consult your lawyer.
Under the rules of evidence, matters are excluded, no matter how relevant to the case, if obtained through these confidential relationships. The rules are technical and vary state to state. Consult your lawyer.
Refers to evidence based on private communications made within legally recognized "confidential relationships," such as husband-wife, attorney-client, patient- psychiatrist, and priest-penitent. It also includes the privilege against "self incrimination" which can be asserted by a party accused of adultery since adultery is still a criminal offense in Massachusetts.
Privilege Definition from Society & Culture Dictionaries & Glossaries
King's Privilege 21 YO, De Luxe Blended Scotch Whisky
By: Morrison Bowmore Distillers Ltd. (Glasgow, Scotland)
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Privilege Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries
