origin of the phrase: the right to privacy

[Jonathan Lighter]

A legal "right to privacy," so termed, is different from a moral right to
privacy.

JL

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 1/27/2011 04:56 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> >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
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> 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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> I noticed this, but it denies a right to privacy.  :-)  (And it's
> later than the 1830 and 1833 instances.)
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> Joel
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> >On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Dennis Baron <debaron at illinois.edu>
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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 =
> > > 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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