Definition of Husband-wife privilege

1. Noun. Neither spouse can divulge confidential communications from the other while they were married.

Exact synonyms: Marital Communications Privilege
Generic synonyms: Privilege

Lexicographical Neighbors of Husband-wife Privilege

hurtiest
hurting
hurtle
hurtleberries
hurtleberry
hurtled
hurtles
hurtless
hurtlessness
hurtling
hurtlingly
hurts
hurty
husband
husband-in-law
husband-wife privilege (current term)
husbandable
husbandage
husbanded
husbander
husbanders
husbandhood
husbanding
husbandless
husbandlike
husbandly
husbandman
husbandmen
husbandries
husbandry

Literary usage of Husband-wife privilege

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Corporate Crime in America: Strengthening the "Good Citizen" Corporation edited by Richard P. Conaboy (1998)
"There is the husband-wife privilege, the doctor-patient privilege, and maybe, you know, priest-penitent. And that's it. And basically our society has taken ..."

2. Child Victims and Witnesses: A Three-State Profileby Jane Crisp by Jane Crisp (1995)
"... information made to a sexual assault counselor. 90.504(3)(b) 24 Husband-Wife privilege exception for child abuse, neglect and sexual assault cases. ..."

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