Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Ligeance

Hist. 1. The obedience of a citizen to the citizen's sovereign or government; allegiance. 2. The territory of a state or sovereign. - Also spelled liegeance. See LIEGE. "Liegeance is a true and faithful obedience of the subject due to his sovereign; and this hegeance, which is an incident inseparable to every subject, is in four manners; the first is natural, the second acquired, the third local, and the fourth legal." Termes de la Ley 280 (1st Am. ed. 1812).