privity

Knowledge of something private or secret shared between individuals, especially with the implication of approval or consent.

A relation of interest or identity between parties close enough to make one party subject to a suit on a claim against the other or conferred with the same rights and obligations as the other.

Privacy; secrecy; confidence.

Private life; privacy; seclusion.

Intimate relation; intimacy.

That which is to be kept privy or private; a secret; a private matter.

Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern, which is often supposed to imply consent or concurrence.

plural The private parts.

In law: That relation between different interests of several persons in the same lands which arises under feudal tenures.

More loosely, since the abrogation of tenure, any joint, separate, or successive interest affecting the same realty is deemed to constitute a privity between the parties in interest.