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.
Nowhere in the early ballads is there mention of Robin or his merry men robbing from the rich to give to the poor. In the Gest, Robin does say âOr yf he be a pore man, Of my good he shall have someâ (page 28, stanza 5). 10. Sherwood is named in only one of the early ballads; Robin Hood and the Monk.en Robin Hood Facts. 1. No-one has been able to prove that Robin Hood existed. 2. The earliest certain mention of Englandâs greatest outlaw hero is found in the B text of William Langlandâs Piers Plowman, dated to about 1377; there is a similar mention in the C text, dated to about 1393.