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单词 absolute privilege
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absolute privilege
absolute privilege n. Law unqualified immunity from litigation; spec. protection by immunity from civil or criminal proceedings in respect of an otherwise actionable statement made in the proceedings or reports of a legislature or judiciary (cf. privilege n. 2c).
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1797 D. Hume Comm. on Law Scotl. II. 131 It may even be maintained, that an oath non memini, or nihil novi, has no absolute privilege, when applied to such a case.
1844 G. W. Cooke Treat. Law of Defamation 60 The effect of this act appears to be, to give an absolute privilege to the circulation in bulk of all matter which has been printed by order of either house of parliament, and to let in the defendant to disprove the legal inference of malice which arises when libellous matter is disseminated in extracts or abstracts of such documents.
1869 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench 5 94 It is to be observed that this absolute privilege is not confined to the administration of justice in the superior courts, but it has been also applied in its fullest extent to judges of the county courts.
1978 N.Y. Times 28 Nov. 1/5 Neither the United States Constitution nor the state law designed to protect reporters and their sources gives reporters an absolute privilege to refuse information demanded by a defendant in a criminal trial.
2003 Nelson (N.Z.) Mail (Nexis) 17 July 9 Had..[he] chosen to only discuss the case in Parliament, there's not a court in the land which could have touched him, because of the absolute privilege that MPs have to say anything they like on the floor of the House of Representatives.
extracted from absoluteadj.adv.n.
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