M.C. Taft

Sir William Blackstone, in his famous "Commentaries on the Laws of England," said: "The people ... are divisible into two kinds; the clergy and laity." As to the clergy, he said:

The right to the maintenance of private reputation unassailed is of an­cient origin and is necessary to human society. This is as much a Constitu­tional right as the possession of life, liberty, or property, and is within…

Under the law of defamation there is another class of communications which we are quite apt to make with­out realizing what may be involved, and this class is known as-

6. Confidential Communications. — Every…