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Simple English definitions for legal terms
privies
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A quick definition of privies:
Privies are people who have a legal interest in something, like a property or a lawsuit. There are six types of privies, including family members, people involved in contracts, and successors to claims. In a lawsuit, privies can include people who control the case, have their interests represented by someone else, or inherit a claim from someone else.
A more thorough explanation:
Definition: Privies (priv-eez) are people who have a legal interest in a matter or property. They are in privity with another person.
Traditionally, there were six types of privies:
- Privies in blood, such as an heir and an ancestor.
- Privies in representation, such as an executor and a testator or an administrator and an intestate person.
- Privies in estate, such as grantor and grantee or lessor and lessee.
- Privies in respect to a contract - the parties to a contract.
- Privies in respect of estate and contract, such as a lessor and lessee where the lessee assigns an interest, but the contract between lessor and lessee continues because the lessor does not accept the assignee.
- Privies in law, such as husband and wife.
The term also appears in the context of litigation. In this sense, it includes:
- Someone who controls a lawsuit though not a party to it.
- Someone whose interests are represented by a party to the lawsuit.
- A successor in interest to anyone having a derivative claim.
For example, if a person inherits property from their grandfather, they are a privy in blood. If a person is named as the executor of a will, they are a privy in representation. If a person leases a property from someone else, they are a privy in estate. If two people sign a contract together, they are privies in respect to a contract.
These examples illustrate how privies are people who have a legal interest in a matter or property. They may have a relationship with another person, such as an ancestor or a lessor, or they may be involved in a legal agreement, such as a contract or a will.