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privilegeA permission or right. In information security, it refers to the modes of operation that a user or a process is granted. Examples include user-level privilege, operator privilege and supervisory privilege. The privilege indicator is a token or semaphore that is maintained by the security kernel. See access mode, privileged mode and capability. privilege 1. any of the fundamental rights guaranteed to the citizens of a country by its constitution 2. a. the right of a lawyer to refuse to divulge information obtained in confidence from a client b. the right claimed by any of certain other functionaries to refuse to divulge information 3. the rights and immunities enjoyed by members of most legislative bodies, such as freedom of speech, freedom from arrest in civil cases during a session, etc. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In some cases, significant steps toward defining authorial rights were taken by figures now almost forgotten, like George Wither, whose The Schollers Purgatory clearly asserts a natural authorial property: "yfhis Majestie hath not a legall power to confirme unto me that which is naturally myne owne, By what right, then, doe they and others enjoy priviledges for those books wherein every man hath as good property as they[? But most men did not, or could not, consult reason, and so to "turn [a man] loose to an unrestrain'd Liberty, before he has Reason to guide him, is not allowing him the priviledge of his Nature to be free; but to thrust him out amongst Brutes, and abandon him to a state as wretched, and as much beneath that of a man, as theirs. Charter of Libertyes and Priviledges, reprinted in 1 THE ROOTS OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS 166 (Bernard Schwartz ed. |
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