Privilege is an exemption from some duty, burden or attendance, to which certain persons are entitled, from a supposition of law, that the stations they fill, or the offices they are engaged in, are such as require all their care; and that, therefore, without this indulgence, it would be impracticable to execute such offices so advantageously as the public good requires.
That which is granted or allowed to any class of persons, either against or beyond the course of the common law; as the non-liability of a member of the legislature to any court other than the parliament itself, for words spoken in his place in Parliament.
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