Privileged

Having a peculiar right or immunity. Privileged communication: a communication made to counsel in professional confidence, which he is not permitted to divulge; a communication made by a person affecting the character of another, privileged by tionable, unless made with express malice. Privileged debts: debts to which a preference in payment is given out of the estate of a deceased person, or out of the assets of an insolvent.

In English law

Privileged copyholds: copyhold estates held according to the custom of the manor, and not at the will of the lord.

In old English law

Privileged villeinage: a species of villeinage in which the tenants held by certain and determinate services; otherwise called villein-socage. In Scots law. Privileged deed: a deed in the execution of which certain formalities are dispensed with,