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priv·i·ty

(prĭv′ĭ-tē)

n. pl. priv·i·ties

1. Knowledge of something private or secret shared between individuals, especially with the implication of approval or consent.

2. Law A relation of interest or identity between parties close enough to make one party subject to a suit on a claim against the other or conferred with the same rights and obligations as the other.

[Middle English privete, secrecy, privacy, from Old French, from Medieval Latin prīvitās, from Latin prīvus, single, alone; see per in Indo-European roots.]

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privity

(ˈprɪvɪtɪ)

n, pl -ties

1. (Law) a legally recognized relationship existing between two parties, such as that between lessor and lessee and between the parties to a contract: privity of estate; privity of contract.

2. secret knowledge that is shared

[C13: from Old French priveté]

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priv•i•ty

(ˈprɪv ɪ ti)

n., pl. -ties.

1. private or secret knowledge.

2. participation in the knowledge of something private or secret, esp. as implying concurrence or consent.

3. Law. the relation between privies.

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

privity

- The state of being private or secret.

See also related terms for private.

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As the Mackinaw Company still continued its rivalry, and as the fur trade would not advantageously admit of competition, he made a new arrangement in 1811, by which, in conjunction with certain partners of the Northwest Company, and other persons engaged in the fur trade, he bought out the Mackinaw Company, and merged that and the American Fur Company into a new association, to be called the "Southwest Company." This he likewise did with the privity and approbation of the American government.

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Say, didst thou too abet This crime, or dost abjure all privity?

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And for myself, if with my privity He gain admittance to my hearth, I pray The curse I laid on others fall on me.

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Your inquiries frightened him into the vestry by night--your inquiries, without your privity and against your will, have served the hatred and wreaked the vengeance of three-and-twenty vears.

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The brandy-and-water luke, and the inkstand, having been carried into the little parlour, and the young lady having carefully flattened down the coals to prevent their blazing, and carried away the poker to preclude the possibility of the fire being stirred, without the full privity and concurrence of the Blue Boar being first had and obtained, Sam Weller sat himself down in a box near the stove, and pulled out the sheet of gilt-edged letter-paper, and the hard-nibbed pen.

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But what I mean to say, and do say is, that as the functions of Toby's body, his digestive organs for example, did of their own cunning, and by a great many operations of which he was altogether ignorant, and the knowledge of which would have astonished him very much, arrive at a certain end; so his mental faculties, without his privity or concurrence, set all these wheels and springs in motion, with a thousand others, when they worked to bring about his liking for the Bells.

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Giovanni had not considered with himself what should be his deportment; whether he should apologize for his intrusion into the garden, or assume that he was there with the privity at least, if not by the desire, of Dr.

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(26) If anything, standing appears broader and less limited than contractual privity requirements.

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'We are privity to the fact that he has defied the directives of the Honourable Minister and the Permanent Secretary to officially resume work in the organisation's head office in Lagos.

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Additionally, Finjan is seeking preliminary and permanent injunctive relief against Qualys and those in privity with them.