confidential communication

A communication made within a certain protected relationship and legally protected from compelled disclosure in a legal proceeding.

• Among confidential communications are those between hus-band and wife, attorney and client, and priest and penitent. See PRIVILEGE(3). [Cases: Witnesses 184–223. C.J.S. Witnesses §§ 297–389.]

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