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Definition of Lieges
1. liege [n] - See also: liege
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lieges
Literary usage of Lieges
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1838)
"... was executed against these parties on 12th August 1814, and against the lieges
on the 23d August following, and was recorded in the General Register of ..."
2. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1896)
"Two of the party were indicted " for carrying pistols within the burgh, convention
of lieges at the palace, and invasion of the Queen's servants. ..."
3. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"Two of the party were indicted "for carrying pistols within the burgh, convention
of lieges at the palace, and invasion of the Queen's servants. ..."
4. Selections from the Judicial Records of Renfrewshire: Illustrative of the by William Hector (1878)
"This high-handed procedure, as may well be supposed, was looked upon by the Baron
as an illegal usurpation of his rights, and by the lieges as not only ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... xi, 6). the king's grace grants life to the criminal condemned to death; in
the latter (objective) sense the king distributes graces to his lieges. ..."
6. A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law of Scotland by John Hay Athole Macdonald (1877)
"BREACH OF CONTRACT OF SERVICE TO THE DANGER OF THE lieges. Any person employed
by those who have charge STATUTORY of supplying a place with gas or water, ..."
7. A Decade of Italian Women by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1859)
"First presentation of a new lord and lady to their lieges. ... Sad conduct on
the part of our lieges.—Life in Rome again.—" Oreo ! Orso !—Colonna ! ..."
8. History of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1899)
"himself thereto," was to assign two days in the week for petitions, " it being
an honorable and necessary thing that his lieges, who desired ..."
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