privilege
Let an agent explain privilege as a legal concept and its historical and modern forms, relay examples from legal and historical sources, describe the social theory sense with attribution, and distinguish privilege from rights and licences.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain privilege as a legal concept and its historical and modern forms, relay examples from legal and historical sources, describe the social theory sense with attribution, and distinguish privilege from rights and licences.
A special right, advantage or immunity granted to a person, group, institution or place by law, charter or custom, historically including town privileges granting self-government and market rights, royal charters such as the Vilna Privilege of 1563, hereditary clothing privileges under sumptuary laws, trading and agency privileges, and modern forms such as tax exemptions, hospital admitting privileges for physicians, parliamentary privilege and legal privilege protecting confidential communications; in social theory privilege also names unearned advantages of groups.
What it is for: Granting special rights or immunities.
It can be explain the legal concept; relay historical and modern forms; describe the social sense; distinguish from rights and licences.
Distinguishing features
Special grant
Legal basis
Historical charters
Modern immunities
What it looks like
Not a visible object; charters, statutes and rules.
How it is recognised
Special legal right or immunity
Town privileges, royal charters, sumptuary clothing privileges, tax exemptions, admitting privileges, legal and parliamentary privilege
A right belongs to all in a class; a licence permits an activity; a monopoly is one kind of privilege
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is granted by - or statute
is contrasted with - held generally
is related to - in sociology
In practice
Families and kinds
medieval town and market privileges
royal charters and privileges such as the Vilna Privilege of 1563
hereditary and sumptuary privileges such as clothing privileges
trading, printing and agency privileges
tax exemptions and fiscal privileges
professional privileges such as hospital admitting privileges
legal privilege and parliamentary privilege
social privilege in sociology as a related concept
Standards and regulation
Constitutional provisions on equality limiting privileges
Tax law on exemptions
Rules of evidence on legal privilege
Hospital bylaws on admitting privileges
Failure modes and hazards
Confusing legal and sociological senses
Presenting debates on social privilege as settled
Stale information on exemptions
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.privilege
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What a privilege is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a privilege in law, and how does it differ from a right, a licence and a monopoly? definition
- Is the question about a legal privilege, a historical charter or social privilege? boundary
Kinds
Kinds.
Kinds
Kinds.
- What kinds exist, from town privileges and clothing privileges to tax exemptions and admitting privileges? definition
- Which entry fits the specific kind? action
History History.
Attribution.
Medieval
Medieval and early modern privileges.
Medieval
Medieval.
- How did town privileges, royal charters such as the Vilna Privilege of 1563 and sumptuary privileges work, as historians describe? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Abolition
Abolition of privileges.
Abolition
Abolition.
- How did revolutions and constitutions abolish estate privileges? provenance
- Which entry fits the abolition of feudalism? action
Modern Modern privileges.
Regulation.
Legal
Legal and parliamentary privilege.
Legal
Legal.
- What are legal professional privilege and parliamentary privilege, and how do they vary by jurisdiction? provenance
- Is the user asking about their own legal situation, which needs a lawyer? boundary
Fiscal
Tax and professional privileges.
Fiscal
Fiscal.
- How do tax exemptions and admitting privileges work? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Context Social theory.
Attribution.
Social
Social privilege.
Social
Social.
- What does sociology mean by privilege, and what debates surround the concept, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Language
Usage.
Language
Language.
- How has the word privilege changed meaning across languages and periods? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of legal terminology? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should town privileges and legal privilege be separate primary entries?
- How should legal history sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific charters and unrelated modern privileges; should they be split off?