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PRIVILEGE

Volume 17 · 81 words · 1823 Edition

in Law, some peculiar benefit grant- ed to certain persons or places, contrary to the usual course of the law.

Privileges are said to be personal or real.

Personal privileges are such as are extended to peers, ambassadors, members of parliament, and of the convoca- tion, &c. See LORDS, AMBASSADOR, PARLIAM- ENT, ARREST, &c.

A real privilege is that granted to some particular place; as the king's palace, the courts at Westminster, the universities, &c.

PRIVILEGES of the Clergy. See CLERGY.