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Definition of Liege subject

1. Noun. A person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Liege Subject

Literary usage of Liege subject

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1890)
"A sovereign ; a superior lord.1 liege subject. ... Among lawyers, however, by the term liege subject is generally understood a natural born subject, ..."

2. An Analytical Digested Index to the Common Law Reports: From the Time of by Thomas Coventry, Samuel Hughes (1832)
"... if under the dominion of the crown, is a liege subject of England. Л non. a Dy. 224. pi. 29. SUBSIDIES. [See post, tit. TAXES.] SUMMONS. 1. ..."

3. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1899)
"... a liege subject of the Crown of England and an inhabitant of the county of Cornwall aforesaid, and an occupier of a certain other messuage and divers, ..."

4. Magisterial Cases by Great Britain Courts, Great Britain Court of Criminal Appeal (1905)
"... said principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs which require the production of a certain declaration by such liege subject intending to travel to ..."

5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"liege subject. Perhaps a person who owes but a temporary allegiance might without impropriety be called a "liege subject" And it is certain that in an ..."

6. Queen's Bench Reports by John Leycester Adolphus, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Thomas Flower Ellis (1846)
"And that there was an immemorial custom in the said borough, that every liege subject using the trade of a victualler hath, during the said fairs, ..."

7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1872)
"And that there was an immemorial custom in the said borough, that every liege subject using the trade of a victualler hath, during the said fairs, ..."

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