origin of the phrase: the right to privacy

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/27/2011 04:56 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>The phrase existed in English law before the Harvard Law Review used it.
>
>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."

I noticed this, but it denies a right to privacy.  :-)  (And it's
later than the 1830 and 1833 instances.)

Joel


>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 =
> > name by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis in the Harvard Law Review of =
> > 1890? An OED search for the phrase yields that article as the earliest =
> > cite. I'm teaching the article in my Language and Law class next week, =
> > 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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