origin of the phrase: the right to privacy

[Dennis Baron]

And thx to Google Bks I found "right of privacy" as early as 1833, in Wm. Carpenter. The Political Text-Book. London, p.. 37
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On Jan 27, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Baker, John wrote:

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>        However, it should be noted that the collocation "right to X,"
> where X is something that might reasonably be the subject of a right, is
> not exactly novel in legal usage.  I think it's fair to say that "right
> to privacy" was not an established phrase in 1890, and I'm not 100%
> certain it's an established phrase today, as opposed to a non-fixed and
> fully transparent collocation such as "English law" or "earliest cases."
> For what it is worth, the earliest cases tended to say "right of
> privacy" rather than "right to privacy."
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> John Baker
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> The phrase existed in English law before the Harvard Law Review used it.
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> JONES v. TAPLING. July 12. 1862
> Cases argued and determined in the Court of Common Pleas and in ...,
> Volume 12
> http://books.google.com/books?id=PkMwAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22right%20to%20privacy
> %22&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=%22right%20to%20privacy%22&f=false
> "...the law does not protect the right to privacy, as it does that to
> light and air."
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> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Dennis Baron <debaron at illinois.edu>
> wrote:
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>> Did the phrase "the right to privacy" originate with the essay of that
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>> name by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis in the Harvard Law Review of
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>> 1890? An OED search for the phrase yields that article as the earliest
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>> cite. I'm teaching the article in my Language and Law class next week,
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>> and I am curious to know if the phrase antedates that often cited =
>> article? (I wouldn't be surprised if it does.)
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