Privies

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Privy \Priv"y\, n.; pl. {Privies}.
     1. (Law) 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 he is not himself a
        party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished


        from party. --Burrill. --Wharton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A necessary house or place for performing excretory
        functions in private; an outhouse; a backhouse.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PRIVIES. Persons who are partakers, or have an interest in any action or 
  thing, or any relation to another. Wood, Inst. b. 2, c. 3, p. 255; 2 Tho. 
  Co. Lit. 506 Co. Lit. 271, a. 
       2. There aye several kinds of privies, namely, privies in blood, as the 
  heir is to the ancestor; privies in representation, as is the executor or 
  administrator to the deceased privies in estate, as the relation between the 
  donor and donee, lessor and lessee; privies in respect to contracts; and 
  privies on account of estate and contract together. Tho. Co. Lit. 506; 
  Prest. Con v. 327 to 345. Privies have also been divided into privies in 
  fact, and privies in law. 8 Co. 42 b. Vide Vin. Ab. Privily; 5 Coin. Dig. 
  347; Ham. on Part. 131; Woodf. Land. & Ten. 279, 1 Dane's Ab. c. 1, art. 6.