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[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

Privy

A partaker a person having an interest in any action or thing one who has an interest in an estate created by another a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which...

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Privy purse

Privy purse, is the sum fixed by the Government of India for covering the expenses of each of the rulers of former Indian States and their families in consideration of their agreement of merger in the...

Privy seal and privy signet

Privy seal and privy signet. The Privy Seal (privatum sigillum) is a seal of the sovereign under which charters, pardons, etc., signed by the sovereign, pass before they come to the Great Seal,and also used for...

Lord Privy Seal

Lord Privy Seal. An office with, at the present time, no definite duties, but to which Lord Salisbury attached a salary of 2,000l. It may confer Cabinet rank upon the holder. See PRIVY SEAL.

Privy tithes

Privy tithes, small tithes.

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a tribunal of Privy Councilors, established by 2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 92, for the disposal of appeals to the Sovereign in Council. It consists of the Lord Chancellor,...

Keeper of the Privy Seal

Keeper of the Privy Seal, now called the Lord Privy Seal, through whose hands all charters, etc., pass before they come to the Great Seal. The office of Lord Privy Seal is always held by a...

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