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
Silence is obviously a strict duty toward others, when the matter in question has been confided to us under the seal of secrecy.
From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet
Despite the seven-fold seal of secrecy which covered the proceedings of the secret sessions, whispers of a recommendation of mercy filled the air.
From The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by David Miller DeWitt
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 Benson John Lossing
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 Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
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