\Priv"i*leged\, a.
Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right,
advantage, or immunity.
{Privileged communication}. (Law)
(a) A communication which can not be disclosed without the
    consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by
    a client to his legal adviser, or by persons to their
    religious or medical advisers.
(b) A communication which does not expose the party making it
    to indictment for libel, -- such as those made by persons
    communicating confidentially with a government, persons
    consulted confidentially as to the character of servants,
    etc.
{Privileged debts} (Law), those to which a preference in
   payment is given out of the estate of a deceased person,
   or out of the estate of an insolvent. --Wharton.
   --Burrill.
{Privileged witnesses} (Law) 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.