privity

Examples

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• Meanwhile, the homeowners association may not have a duty under common law to disclose information because it's not in privity with the buyer, he notes.

  Academic text (2005)

• The privity concept developed primarily in the adversarial context of litigation, she notes, where it remains largely inviolate.

  Academic text (1995)

• For that reason, Hall says the erosion of privity may have reached its far point.

  Academic text (1995)

• The court rejected the appellants' privity of contract argument for several reasons.

  Academic text (2017)

• Under the appellants' theory, all consumers were in privity of contract with all producers in the California markets, including the government sellers.

  Academic text (2017)

• The long-established concept of privity, which forged a bond between lawyers and their clients through good times and bad, is crumbling.

  Academic text (1995)

• Increasingly, lawyers must anticipate the possibility that they will be sued for malpractice by parties not covered under the traditional blanket of privity.

  Academic text (1995)

• Bresnahan argues that lawyers' adherence to the privity rule has not been primarily motivated by self-protection.

  Academic text (1995)

• The CoFC dismissed the appellants' breach of contract action, holding that the appellants lacked standing because they were not in privity of contract with the federal government.

  Academic text (2017)

• In legal disputes, privity is essential to determining which parties hold rights and obligations under the agreement.

Antonyms

P

public

∞ 1.0

Open or available to everyone, not private

C

common

∞ 1.0

Shared by two or more people

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology