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Privies

Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889), Bouvier (1839)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

By privies are meant heirs, executors, administrators, terre-tenants, or those having an interest in remainder or reversion, or one who is made a party by the law. 7 Ency. of PI. & Pr. 857; 232 111. 168; 173 111. 117. ' In judgments or decrees which do not determine status, but relate to rights or interests of parties in and to certain property, "privies" are those who Succeed to the ownership of the property or some right or interest therein, under one of the parties to the litigation, directly or by mesne conveyance, by gift, by kinship, or by operation of law. Privity in such cases has reference to persons in their relation to property. 153 Wis. 69. See "Privy." PRIVIGNUS (Lat.)

In civil law. Son of a husband or wife by a former marriage; a stepson. Calv. Lex.; Vicat.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Persons connected together or having mutual interest in the same action or thing by some relation other than that of actual contract between them. See 31 Mont. 448, 107 Am. St. Rep. 435, 78 Pac. 774.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

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.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Persons connected together or having a mutual interest in the same action or thing, by some relation other than that of actual contract betwcen them; persons whose interest in an estate is derived from the contract or conveyance of others. Those who are partakers or have an interest in any action or thing, or any relation to another. They are of six hinds:
(1) Privies of blood; such as the heir to his ancestor.
(2) Privies in representation; as executors or administrators to their deceased testator or intestate.
(3) Privies in estate ; as grantor and grantee, lessor and lessee, assignor and assignee, etc.
(4) Privities, in respect of contract, are personal privities, and extend only to the persons of the lessor and lessee.
(5) Privies in respect of estate and contract; as where the lessee assigns his interest, but the contract between lessor and lessee continues, the lessor not having accepted of the assignee.
(6) Privies in law; as the lord by escheat, a tenant by the curtesy, or in dower, the incumbent of a benefice, a husband suing or defending in right of his wife, etc. Wharton.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

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

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

See Peivy, S.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

are persons who are _partakers, or have an interest in any action or thing, or any relation to another. Weod, Inst. b. 2, c. 3, p- 255; 2 Tho. Co. Litt. 506; Co. Litt. 271 a. There are 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 're- ‘lation 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. Conv. 327 to 345. Privies have also been divided into privies in fact, and privies in law. 8 Co. 42 b. Vide Vin. Ab. -Privity; 5 Com. Dig. 347; Ham. on Part. 1381; Woodf. Land. & Ten. 279.