Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Ligeance"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ligeance \Li"geance\ (l[=e]"jans), n. [OF. ligeance, ligance.
See {Liege}.] (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. [Written also {ligeancy} and {liegance}.]
--Chaucer.
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