2012 New York Consolidated Laws
CVP - Civil Practice Law & Rules
Article 45 - (4501 - 4548) EVIDENCE
4505 - Confidential communication to clergy privileged.


NY CPLR § 4505 (2012) What's This?
 
    §  4505.  Confidential  communication to clergy privileged. Unless the
  person confessing or confiding waives the  privilege,  a  clergyman,  or
  other  minister  of  any  religion  or duly accredited Christian Science
  practitioner, shall not be allowed disclose a confession  or  confidence
  made to him in his professional character as spiritual advisor.

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