privity

[ priv-i-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural priv·i·ties.

private or secret knowledge.
participation in the knowledge of something private or secret, especially as implying concurrence or consent.
Law. the relation between privies.
Obsolete. privacy.

privity

/ ˈprɪvɪtɪ /

a legally recognized relationship existing between two parties, such as that between lessor and lessee and between the parties to a contract
privity of contract
privity of estate
secret knowledge that is shared

Origin of privity¹

1175–1225; Middle English privete, privite < Old French. See privy, -ity

Origin of privity¹

C13: from Old French priveté

But Judith had not meddled with the arrangement, and every necessary disposition was made without her privity or advice.

They stopped at a door in a poor court which they had somehow reached without Mavering's privity.

All this whole matter, even to my writing my Letter to Kid, was transacted with the privity and advice of the Councill.

It has been suggested, that our Commissioners signed this treaty without the privity of the Court of France.

We now know whose act it was, and we know that it was committed without Gladstone's privity.

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