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privy /'pri-vē/ n pl priv·ies [Anglo-French privé, from Old French, intimate, confidant, from privé intimate, familiar, from Latin privatus private]: one having privity; esp: one who acquires an interest in the subject matter (as property) of prior or pending litigation and is bound by the judgment as if he or she were a party to the action
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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adjective
acquainted with, arcane, auricular, buried, clandestine, cognizant of, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, dark, exclusive, furtive, hidden, inmost, limited, murky, mysterious, nonpublic, obscure, personal, private, recondite, reserved, restricted, secret, sequestered, stealthy, surreptitious, undisclosed, unrevealed
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contracting party, interested party, partaken, participant, party
associated concepts: parties and privies
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mysterious, personal (private), private (confidential), secret, stealthy
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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n.A person who shares privity with another; a person with an interest in an action or property.adj.Sharing in private information.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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n. Persons having a mutual interest in the same thing or who are connected by some relation other than contract.
Webster's New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000.
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One who has a direct, successive relationship to another individual; a coparticipant; one who has an interest in a matter; private.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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One who has a direct, successive relationship to another individual; a coparticipant; one who has an interest in a matter; private.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
