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Definition :

Privies, those who are partakers or have an interest in any action or thing, or any relation to another. They have been said to be of six kinds:-

(1) Privies in blood, such as the heir to his ancestor, or between coparceners.

(2) Privies in representation, as executors or administrators to their deceased testator or intestate.

(3) Privies in estate, as grantor and grantee, lessor and lessee, assignor and assignee, etc.

(4) Privities, in respect of contract, are personal privities, and extend only to the persons of the lessor and lessee, or the parties to the contract or assignees upon a fresh contract or novation with the assignee.

(5) Privies, in respect of estate and contract together, as where the lessee assigns his interest, but the contract between lessor and lessee continues, the lessor not having accepted the assignee in substitution.

(6) Privies in law, as the lord by escheat, a tenant by the courtesy, or in dower, the incumbent of a benefice, a husband suing or defending in right of his wife, etc. See Jac. Law Dict.; Co. Litt. 271 a.