Privileged

Possessing or enjoying a privilege; exempt from burdens; entitled to priority or precedence,

— Privileged Communications. See Communication.

— Privileged copyholds. See Copyhold.
—.Privileged debts. Those which an executor or administrator may pay in preference to others; such as funeral expenses, servants' wages, and doctors' bills during last sickness, etc.

— Privileged deed. In Scotch law. An instrument, for example, a testament, in the execution of which certain statutory formalities usually required are dispensed with, either from necessity or expediency. Ersk. Inst. 3, 2, 22; Bell.

— Privileged villenage. In old English law. A species of villenage in which the tenants held by certain and determinate services; otherwise called "villein-soeage." Bract, fol. 209. Now called "privileged copyhold," including the tenure in ancient demesne. 2 Bl. Comm. 99, 100.

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,