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privileged

Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication.

Witnesses who are not obliged to testify as to certain things, as lawyers in relation to their dealings with their clients, and officers of state as to state secrets; also, by statute, clergymen and physicans are placed in the same category, so far as concerns information received by them professionally.


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Natural selection is proven wrong

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The Fiber Disease

... Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received ...

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