Private act or statute, a statute exclusively for the settlement of
private and personal interests, of which courts do not take judicial
notice; -- opposed to a general law, which operates on the whole
community. -- Private nuisance or wrong. See Nuisance. -- Private
soldier. See Private, n., 5. -- Private way, a right of private passage
over another man's ground. Kent.
Pri"vate (pr"vt), n.