seal of secrecy

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Lord Widgery, Lord Chief Justice of England, ruled that the government cannot put a seal of secrecy on its internal business without convincing the court that silence is "clearly necessary in the public interest."

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps the facts may have been communicated to him under the seal of secrecy, and if so he showed firmness in that he had shared in the plunder with Deane and Beaumarchais.

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Conway, Moncure Daniel

And it never forgave the poor outcast for leaving 622the world with that seal of secrecy still unbroken.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

He then recounted, under seal of secrecy, the whole story as we have seen it.

From A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Ward, Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson)

I have known it these two years, under the seal of secrecy.

From Deerbrook by Martineau, Harriet