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; Co. Litt 271 o.

There are several kinds of privies: namely, privies in blood, as the heir is to the ancesprivies 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.

Prest. Conv. 327.

Privies have also been divided into privies in fact and privies in law.

8 Co. 42 b. See Vine;:, Abr. Privity; 5 Cora. Dig. 347; Hamm. Part. 131; Woodf. Landl. & T. 279; 1 Dane, Abr. c. 1, art.

G. The latter are created by the law casting land.upon a person, as in escheat; 1 Greenl.

Ev. § 189.

No one is privy to a judgment whose succession to the rights of property thereby affected occurred previously to the institution of the suit.

Freem. Judg. § 162; Norton v. Fruit-Packing Co., 83 Fed. 515, 27 C. C. A. 576. See Privity; Bigelow v. M. & S. Co., 225 U. S. Ill, 32 Sup. Ct. 641, 56 L. Ed. 1009, Ann. Cas. 1913E, 875.

PRIVIGNUS (Lat.). In Civil Law. Son of a husband or wife by a former marriage; a stepson. Calvinus, Lex.; Vicat, Voc. Jur.