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• Privilege (evidence) — Under common law, privilege is a term describing a number of rules excluding evidence that would be adverse to a fundamental principle or relationship if it were disclosed. [Butterworths Concise Australian Legal Dictionary] The most common form… …   Wikipedia

• privilege against self-incrimination — A privilege of one who is accused of a crime, existing under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution, as well as under the constitutions of most of the states, not to be compelled to give self incriminating testimony. 21… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• privilege against self incrimination — noun the civil right (guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution) to refuse to answer questions or otherwise give testimony against yourself • Syn: ↑freedom from self incrimination • Topics: ↑law, ↑jurisprudence •… …   Useful english dictionary

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• Reporters' Privilege — in the United States, is the qualified (limited) First Amendment right many jurisdictions by statutory law or judicial decision have given to journalists in protecting their confidential sources from discovery. The First, Second, Third, Fourth,… …   Wikipedia