What does "privity" mean?
Privity: Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern; cognizance implying consent or concurrence. All the doors were laid open for his departure, not without the privity of the Prince of Orange. Swift.
Additional senses
- 2.A private matter or business; a secret. Chaucer.
- 3.pl. The genitals; the privates.
- 4.(Law) A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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