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husband-wife privilege

Legal Definition of husband-wife privilege

Noun

  1. A special right that married persons have to keep communications between them secret and even inaccessible to a court of law. While this privilege may have been varied in some states, it has always been held to be lifted where one spouse commits a crime on the other. Similar to the client-solicitor privilege.



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