Privity

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Privacy; secrecy; confidence. Chaucer. I will unto you, in privity, discover . . . my purpose. Spenser.

2. Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern; cognizance implying consent or concurrence. All the doors were laid open for his departure, not without the privity of the Prince of Orange. Swift.

3. A private matter or business; a secret. Chaucer.

4. The genitals; the privates.

5. A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.