Privy

One who is a partaker or has any part or interest in any action, matter, or thing.

Co. Litt. 271a.

One who has an interest in an estate created by another, or in a contract or conveyance to which he is not a party. A mutual or successive relationship of persons.

263 111. 203; 246 111. 573.

Privity may be:. (1) Of contract, being the relation which (2) In estate, as between lessor and lessee. (3) In blood, as between an heir and his ancestor. (4) In representation, as between a testator and his executors. (5) In tenure, as between a lord and his feudal tenants. (6) In person, as between husband and wife or trustee and beneficiary. (7) In possession, as between joint tea ants or tenants in common. (8) In law, as where the law casts land upon another without privity of blood or estate, as by escheat. A more general division has been made into privies in estate, privies in blood, and privies in law.

1 Greenl. Ev. § 189.