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.
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