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  • LIGA
    In old European law. A league or confederation. Spelman.
  • LIGAN, LAGAN
    Goods cast into the sea tied to a buoy, so that they may be found again by the owners, are so denominated. When goods are cast into the sea In storms or shipwrecks, and remain there, without coming to land, they are distinguished by the barbarous names of "jetsam," "flotsam," More...
  • LIGARE
    To tie or bind. Bract, fol. 869b. To enter into a league or treaty. Spelman.
  • LIGEA
    In old English law. A liege-woman; a female subject. Reg. Orig. 312b.
  • LIGEANCE
    Allegiance; the faithful obedience of a subject to his sovereign, of a citizen to his government Also, derivatively, the territory of a state or sovereignty.
  • LIGEANTIA
    Lat. Ligeance; allegiance. Ligeantia est quasi legis essentia; est vinculum fldei. Co. Litt 129. Allegiance is, as it were, the essence of law; it is the chain of faith. Ligeantia natnralis nnllls claustria eoercetur, nnllit metis refrssnatur, nnllls nnibus premitnr. 7 Coke, 10. Natural allegiance is restrained by no barriers, More...
  • LIGEAS
    In old records. A liege.
  • LIGHT
    A window, or opening in the wall for the admission of light Also a privilege or easement to have light admitted into one's building by the openings made for that purpose, without obstruction or obscuration by the walls of adjacent or neighboring structures.
  • LIGHT-HOUSE
    A structure, usually in the form of a tower, containing signal-lights for the guidance of vessels at night, at dangerous points of a coast, shoals, etc. They are usually erected by government, and subject to governmental regulation. -Light-house board. A commission authorized by congress, consisting of two officers of the More...
  • LIGHT-SHIP, LIGHT-VESSEL
    A vesseL serving the purpose of a light-house, usually at a place where the latter could not well be built.
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