privity of contract
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
The doctrine that only the parties to a contract can sue or be sued on it, subject to statutory exceptions for third parties.
The subcontractor could not rely on the main contract because privity of contract stood in the way.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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