Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Variants of legiance, for allegiance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
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- noun UK, law, obsolete The
connection betweensovereign andsubject by which they were mutually bound, the former toprotection and the securing ofjustice , the latter tofaithful service ;allegiance .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Van Gosse: Birthright Citizenship Is Bedrock Americanism Van Gosse 2010
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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 2010
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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 2010
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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.
Van Gosse: Birthright Citizenship Is Bedrock Americanism Van Gosse 2010
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_ligeance, (à ligando_) which may be either perpetual or temporary.
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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.
CONSTITUTIONALISM DAVID FELLMAN 1968
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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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