Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Variants of legiance, for allegiance.
Wiktionary
- n. UK, law, obsolete The connection between sovereign and subject by which they were mutually bound, the former to protection and the securing of justice, the latter to faithful service; allegiance.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (O. Eng. Law) The connection between sovereign and subject by which they were mutually bound, the former to protection and the securing of justice, the latter to faithful service; allegiance.
Etymologies
- Old French ligeance, ligance. See liege. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Natural-born fubjects are fuch as are born within the dominions of the crown of England, that is, within the ligeance, or as it is generally called, the allegiance of the king; and aliens, fuch as are born out ofit.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School
“Natural-born subjects are such as are born within the dominions of the crown of England, that is, within the ligeance, or as it is generally called, the allegiance of the king; and aliens, such as are born out of it.”
The Huffington Post: Van Gosse: Birthright Citizenship Is Bedrock Americanism
“_ligeance, (à ligando_) which may be either perpetual or temporary.”
“As Coke, one of the leading spokesmen of the resistance to Stuart claims to absolute power, declared in 1610: “That ligeance or obedience of the subject to the Sovereign is due by the law of nature: 2.”
“But by several more modern statutes these restrictions are still farther taken off: so that all children, born out of the king's ligeance, whose fathers were natural-born subjects, are now natural-born subjects themselves, to all intents and purposes, without any exception; unless their said fathers were attainted, or banished beyond sea, for high treason; or were then in the service of a prince at enmity with Great Britain ”
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