A close, direct, or successive relationship; having a mutual interest or right. Privity refers to a connection or bond between parties to a particular transaction. Privity of contract is the relationship that exists between two or more parties to an agreement. Privity of estate exists between a lessor and a lessee, and privity of possession is the relationship between parties in successive possession of real property. n. contact, connection or mutual interest between parties. The term is particularly important in the law of contracts, which requires that there be privity if one party to a contract can enforce the contract by a lawsuit against the other party.
However the first known literary reference to Robin Hood and his men was in 1377, and the Sloane manuscripts in the British Museum have an account of Robin's life which states that he was born around 1160 in Lockersley (most likely modern day Loxley) in South Yorkshire.
John B. Hood was a brilliant cavalry commander that was haunted by humiliating defeat late in his career. Hood was born in June 1831 in Owingsville, Kentucky. His father was a doctor and did not want Hood to join the army. Hood did though and graduated from West Point in 1853 though he finished 44th out of 52 graduates.