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Ligeantia

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Lat. Ligeance; allegiance, = Ligeantia est quasi lexis essentia; est vineulum fidei.

Ca. Litt,129.

Allagianece is, as it were, the essence of law; it is the. chain of faith, Ligeantia naturalis nullis claustris coercetur, nullis metis refreenatur, nullis finibus premitur.

7 Coke, 10.

Natural allegiance is restrained by no barriers, reined by no bounds, compressed by no limits.