Category:Privity

Priv"i*ty, n.; pl. Privities (-tîz). Etym: [from privy, a.: cf. F. Privauté extreme familiarity.]

1. Privacy; secrecy; confidence. Chaucer. I will unto you, in privity, discover. . . my purpose. Spenser.

2. 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.

3. A private matter or business; a secret. Chaucer.

4. pl.

Defn: the genitals; the privates.

5. (law)

Defn: a connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some Particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same Rights of property.