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

He, being proud of the literary attainments of his wife, sent it around to his friends, under seal of secrecy.

From The Group A Farce by Moses, Montrose Jonas

But how could I imagine that M. Lepaute would ever undertake to appropriate to himself this escapement which it will be seen I confided to him under the seal of secrecy?

From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Kite, Elizabeth S.

And Owen and he talked, and I know that he told him all that had happened and what his own plans for me were, under the seal of secrecy.

From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

That conflict had commenced in the general convention, but the proceedings of that body were under the seal of secrecy.

From Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Lossing, Benson John