Privies
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
Persons connected by some relation other than that of contract between them; persons so connected in estate, right or liability that one will be affected as the other is affected. Privies in blood: persons connected by blood, as coparceners, or ancestor and heir. Privies in estate: persons interested, or persons who have been or might have been interested in the same estate, under the same title. Privies in law: persons connected under a law which casts land, upon one, as in escheat