breach of privilege
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His fellow MPs subsequently voted to reprimand him for "a breach of privilege and a gross contempt of the House".
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2016
The all-party Committee on Privileges would meet to determine whether the Sandys summons constituted a breach of privilege.
From Time Magazine Archive
The committee, which includes the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, Labor Leader Major Clement R. Attlee and Sir Archibald Sinclair, Liberal leader, in short order decided unanimously that there had been a breach of privilege.
From Time Magazine Archive
Smarting, the publishers accused columnists of "a gross breach of privilege" in denouncing a book before it appeared, of exaggerating its sensationalism.
From Time Magazine Archive
But there intervened a riotous scene, arising on a question of a breach of privilege.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
