Ligeantia
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Lat Ligeance; allegiance.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
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.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
/., Ligeance. Allegiance; the bond of fealty, fidelity between subject and sovereign.