Definitions for privity

privity priv·i·ty

Spelling: [priv-i-tee]
IPA: /ˈprɪv ɪ ti/

Privity is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in privity (iiprtvy).

Definitions for privity

noun

  1. private or secret knowledge.
  2. participation in the knowledge of something private or secret, especially as implying concurrence or consent.
  3. Law. the relation between privies.
  4. Obsolete. privacy.

Origin of privity

1175-1225; Middle English privete, privite Old French. See privy, -ity

Examples for privity

Some have supposed this privity to be tenure; some, an interest of the covenantee in the land of the covenantor; and so on.

To this day it is said that a trust is annexed in privity to the person and to the estate /2/ (which means to the persona).

But Judith had not meddled with the arrangement, and every necessary disposition was made without her privity or advice.

Their Bond, if at all signed, must be signed without his privity.

The technical expression for the rule was that they were annexed to the estate in privity.

On the one hand is the conception of succession or privity; on the other, that of rights inhering in a thing.

Even then, these opportunities were secured by my artifice, without her privity.

"Si," replied the stranger in Italian, with an air of privity.

This he likewise did with the privity and approbation of the American government.

In the meane time, we desire you to rest assured, that such things are without our privity, and not a litle greeveous to us.

Word Value for privity
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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