privilège conjugal

Désignations

Codes : pays ou zone où la désignation a cours (CH, FR, DE, EU = Union européenne, INT = usage international). Une désignation barrée est déconseillée.

Définitions

anglais

Privileges created by the Evidence Act 1853, s. 3, and the Criminal Evidence Act 1898, s. 1(d) whereby, during the marriage, one spouse could not be compelled to disclose communications made to him or her by the other ... whereby a spouse is competent but not compellable, to give evidence relating to sexual intercourse. These privileges relate only to criminal proceedings.