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Definition of Privileged witnesses

Privileged witnesses
Witness Wit"ness, n. [AS. witness, gewitnes, from witan to know. [root]133. See Wit, v. i.] 1. Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony. May we with . . . the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge? --Shak. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. --John v. 31. 2. That which furnishes evidence or proof. Laban said to Jacob, . . . This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness. --Gen. xxxi. 51, 52. 3. One who is cognizant; a person who beholds, or otherwise has personal knowledge of, anything; as, an eyewitness; an earwitness. ``Thyself art witness I am betrothed.' --Shak. Upon my looking round, I was witness to appearances which filled me with melancholy and regret. --R. Hall. 4. (Law) (a) One who testifies in a cause, or gives evidence before a judicial tribunal; as, the witness in court agreed in all essential facts. (b) One who sees the execution of an instrument, and subscribes it for the purpose of confirming its authenticity by his testimony; one who witnesses a will, a deed, a marriage, or the like. Privileged witnesses. (Law) See under Privileged. With a witness, effectually; to a great degree; with great force, so as to leave some mark as a testimony. [Colloq.] This, I confess, is haste with a witness. --South.
Privileged witnesses
Privileged Priv"i*leged, a. Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. (Law) (a) A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his legal adviser, or by persons to their religious or medical advisers. (b) A communication which does not expose the party making it to indictment for libel, -- such as those made by persons communicating confidentially with a government, persons consulted confidentially as to the character of servants, etc. Privileged debts (Law), those to which a preference in payment is given out of the estate of a deceased person, or out of the estate of an insolvent. --Wharton. --Burrill. Privileged witnesses (Law) witnesses who are not obliged to testify as to certain things, as lawyers in relation to their dealings with their clients, and officers of state as to state secrets; also, by statute, clergymen and physicans are placed in the same category, so far as concerns information received by them professionally.

Meaning of Privileged witnesses from wikipedia

- running on the sidewalk. Jehovah's Witnesses consider many actions to be "serious sins", for which baptized Witnesses are subject to a committee hearing...
- The effect of the privilege is usually a right on the part of a party or witness to a case, allowing them to refuse to produce evidence in the form of do****ents...
- was the resulting political handling cause for much optimism to privileged witnesses such as Aubrey, T. E. Lawrence or Gertrude Bell. At the conference...
- States Constitution, no person shall be compelled to be a witness against themselves. Witnesses can't be forced to testify if the testimony may incriminate...
- President Badruddoza Chowdhury. In 2000, he published a memoir called Privileged Witness: Memoirs of a Diplomat. He was a Presidium member of Bikalpa Dhara...
- the subject memo suitable for public disclosure – it was no longer a "privileged" do****ent.[citation needed] In addition, public accounting firms had a...
- species and to develop access to water resources. The Polar Regions, privileged witnesses to the world environment. The effects of global warming, pollution...
- colloquial term often used to invoke the Self-Incrimination Clause when witnesses decline to answer questions where the answers might incriminate them....
- more than a thousand journalists, as well as historians and other privileged witnesses of the 20th century. They address cross-disciplinary themes, scientific...
- privilegiat al istoriei. 1921–1947 (The Past Catches Up. The Memoirs of a Privileged Witness to History. 1921-1947) by Humanitas Publishing, in an edition supervised...