PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATION
\pɹˈɪvɪlɪd͡ʒd kəmjˌuːnɪkˈe͡ɪʃən], \pɹˈɪvɪlɪdʒd kəmjˌuːnɪkˈeɪʃən], \p_ɹ_ˈɪ_v_ɪ_l_ɪ_dʒ_d k_ə_m_j_ˌuː_n_ɪ_k_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATION
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- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1910 - Black's Law Dictionary (2nd edition)
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In the law of evidence. A communication made to a counsel, solicitor, or attorney, in professional confidence, and which he is not permitted to divulge; otherwise called a "confidential communication." 1 Starkie, Ev. 185. In tlie law of libel and slander. A defamatory statement made to another in pursuance of a duty,. political, judicial, social, or personal, so that an action for libel or slander will not lie, though the statement be false, unless in the last two cases actual malice be proved in addition. Bacon v. Railroad Co., 60 Mich. 166, 33 N. W. 181. COMMUNINGS. In Scotch law. The negotiations preliminary to the entering into a contract
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a private communication that the law exempts a person from revealing. Such as doctor-patient, client-attorney.
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