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absolutely privileged communication
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Privileged communication
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privilege
requirements of a position or office ;also : the affirmative defense that an action is privileged compare excuse absolute privilege : a privilege that exempts a person from liability esp. for defamation regardless of intent or motive … that demands confidentiality [the attorney-client ] [the doctor-patient ] [the marital ] [the priest-penitent ] see also confidential communication deliberative process privilege : a privilege exempting the government from disclosure (as in discovery) of government agency materials
Libel
but a report not judicially determining a right or the guilt or innocence of any one is not absolutely privileged (O'Connor v. Waldron, 78 Sol. Jo. 859); or (b) qualified privilege, i.e., upon an occasion which justified the … mere fact of a contract to supply information does not create such a duty or common interest that communications made in fulfilment of the contractual obligations are privileged. The underlying principle is the common convenience and welfare
Alien
Superintendent, (1915) 3 KB 716. By s. 2 the Secretary of State may, on application and in his absolute discretion, grant a certificate of naturalization to an alien who satisfies the Secretary-- (a) That he has either … the applicant has taken the oath of allegiance. The certificate gives the grantee all the rights, powers, and privileges and subjects him to all obligations, duties and liabilities of a natural-born British subject, and gives him the … by false representations or in the case of a person who has communicated or traded with an enemy or within specified limits been fined or
Common
by merely showing it commenced within time of memory, and after sixty years' enjoyment the right shall be absolute and indefeasible, unless it appear that the same was taken and enjoyed under some deed or writing. There … right of feeding one's beasts in another's land, and this is subdivided into: (a) Appendant, which is a privilege belonging to the owners or occupiers of arable land holden of a manor, to put upon its wastes … has in the land of another; it derives its name from the community of interest which thence arises between the claimant and the owner of
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