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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Privy \Priv"y\, n.; pl. Privies.
   1. (Law) A partaker; a person having an interest in any
      action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate
      created by another; a person having an interest derived
      from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a
      party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished
      from party. --Burrill. --Wharton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A necessary house or place for performing excretory
      functions in private; an outhouse; a backhouse.
      [1913 Webster +PJC]

2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

PRIVIES. 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; 2 Tho. 
Co. Lit. 506 Co. Lit. 271, a. 
     2. There aye 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 relation 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. Con v. 327 to 345. Privies have also been divided into privies in 
fact, and privies in law. 8 Co. 42 b. Vide Vin. Ab. Privily; 5 Coin. Dig. 
347; Ham. on Part. 131; Woodf. Land. & Ten. 279, 1 Dane's Ab. c. 1, art. 6.

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