Privileged witnesses Meaning, Definition & Usage

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  1. . (Law) See under Privileged.
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  1. (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.

Webster 1913