A complete picture is impossible -- partly because of the limitations of space, partly because for millions of individuals who professed allegiance to the Christian faith data are unobtainable.

The reciprocal duty of the subject towards the Crown is that of allegiance.

At common law allegiance is a true and faithful obedience of the subject due to his Sovereign.

Natural allegiance and obedience is an incident inseparable to every subject, for parte Anderson ( 1861 ) 3 El & El 487 ; 121 ER 525 ).

Where territory is occupied in the course of hostilities by an enemy's force, even if the annexation of the occupied country is proclaimed by the enemy, there can be no change of allegiance during the progress of hostilities on the part of a citizen of the occupied country ( R v Vermaak ( 1900 ) 21 NLR 204 ( South Africa )).

The natural allegiance and obedience is an incident inseparable to every subject, for as soon as they are born they owe by birthright allegiance and obedience to the Sovereign ( Ex p. Anderson ( 1861 ) 3 E & E 487 ).

A natural-born subject owes allegiance wherever they may be, so that where territory is occupied in the course of hostilities by an enemy's force, even if the annexation of the occupied country is proclaimed by the enemy, there can be no change of allegiance during the progress of hostilities on the part of a citizen of the occupied country ( R v Vermaak ( 1900 ) 21 NLR 204 ( South Africa )).

By the Naturalisation Act 1870, it was made possible for British subjects to renounce their nationality and allegiance, and the ways in which that nationality is lost are defined.

Every natural-born citizen of a foreign state who is also an American citizen and every natural-born American citizen who is a citizen of a foreign land owes a double allegiance, one to the United States, and one to his homeland ( in the event of an immigrant becoming a citizen of the US ), or to his adopted land ( in the event of an emigrant natural born citizen of the US becoming a citizen of another nation ).

The oath of allegiance is an oath of fidelity to the sovereign taken by all persons holding important public office and as a condition of naturalization.

The word used in the Arabic language for allegiance is bay ' at ( Arabic: بيعة ), which means " taking hand ".

The practice is sanctioned in the Qur ' an by Surah 48: 10: " Verily, those who give thee their allegiance, they give it but to Allah Himself ".

The word is used for the oath of allegiance to an emir.

This view mainly says that Luke is writing to the church in order to legitimate their Christian beliefs and to show that faith in Christ is compatible with allegiance to the Roman Empire.

Male chauvinism has been defined as a “ blind allegiance and simple minded devotion to one ’ s maleness that is mixed with open or disguised belligerence toward women.

One such fatal poison is secretly administered by the Harkonnens to Thufir Hawat, the Mentat of House Atreides, in order to keep Hawat's allegiance as the only provider of the antidote ( in the 1984 movie version, it is shown that Hawat has to milk a gruesome captive cat for the antidote every day ).

If the demands of these two sovereigns upon his duty of allegiance come into conflict, those of the United States have the paramount authority in American law ; likewise, those of the foreign land have paramount authority in their legal system.

We could never have imagined ( had we not seen it fall out in experience ) that a man raised up by ourself and extraordinarily favoured by us, above any other subject of this land, would have in so contemptible a sort broken our commandment in a cause that so greatly touches us in honour .... And therefore our express pleasure and commandment is that, all delays and excuses laid apart, you do presently upon the duty of your allegiance obey and fulfill whatsoever the bearer hereof shall direct you to do in our name.

The other irritant ( to the papacy ) in English relations was Cardinal Bellarmine's letter to the English archpriest George Blackwell, reproaching him for having taken the oath of allegiance in apparent disregard of his duty to the Pope.

According to the opinion of the Supreme Court of the German Reich, every citizen owes his Fatherland a duty of allegiance regarding information, and endeavours towards the enforcement of existing laws may be implemented only through the utilization of responsible domestic state organs, and never by appealing to foreign governments.

The player assumes the role of Ace Azzameen, the youngest of the Azzameen children, juggling military duty as a fighter pilot for the Rebel Alliance, and allegiance to his family, flying larger heavily-armed freighters for the family business, amid a bloody family feud and in the larger context of a galactic civil war.

As a subscriber to War Commentary, the war-time equivalent of Freedom, he was called in 1945 from Orkney, where he was serving, to give evidence at the London trial of the editors for publishing an article allegedly intended to seduce soldiers from their duty or allegiance.

" He also said, " As Catholics in America, we owe unswerving allegiance to the Government of the United States, and it is our sacred duty to answer with alacrity every demand our country makes upon our loyalty and devotion.

An oath of allegiance is an oath whereby a subject or citizen acknowledges a duty of allegiance and swears loyalty to monarch or country.

More broadly, it involves abandoning a person, cause or doctrine to which one is bound by some tie, as of allegiance or duty .< ref > http :// dictionary. reference. com / browse / defector " de · fec · tor – noun a person who defects from a cause, country, alliance, etc.

He resided at Cambridge, teaching and taking occasional duty until the accession of George I, when his conscience forbade him to take the oaths of allegiance to the new government and of abjuration of the Stuarts.

In the second, The Honor of the Queen, she takes severely outgunned units to defend a planet she has no political allegiance to but with which her government is attempting to negotiate treaties, and subsequently takes on the duty of upholding the honor of the Star Kingdom of Manticore and its queen.

" I, ________ do swear in the name of God that I will bear true faith and allegiance to solemnly affirm the Constitution of India as by law established and that I will faithfully discharge the duty upon which I am about to enter.

With his co-editors Philip Sansom and John Hewetson, he was tried at the Old Bailey and imprisoned for nine months in 1945 for conspiring to publish an article allegedly inciting soldiers to disaffect from their duty or allegiance.

And in your care and speedy performance of this Our will and pleasure We shall rely on your wonted duty and allegiance to Us which We shall accept and reward in due time.

Such is this subject's duty in repaying the Former Emperor and affirming allegiance to Your Majesty.

The Meiji Constitution of 1889 defined allegiance to the State as the citizen's highest duty.

Essentially, this merely recognized that no person holding land in the new United States owed any allegiance or duty to the Crown or any English noble.

Breach of a duty of allegiance was not an element of treachery.

I hold allegiance to my country, devotion to duty, and personal integrity above all.

The Incitement to Disaffection Act 1934 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made it an offence to endeavour to seduce a member of HM Forces from his " duty or allegiance to His Majesty ", thus expanding the ambit of the law.

The previous relevant legislation was the Incitement to Mutiny Act 1797, which created the offence of endeavouring to seduce a member of HM Forces from his duty and allegiance.

Sa'd dismissed the pleas of the Aws, according to Watt because being close to death and concerned with his afterlife, he put what he considered " his duty to God and the Muslim community " before tribal allegiance.

By the standards of the oaths of allegiance to be found in other British Commonwealth dominions, it was quite mild, with no direct personal Oath to the monarch, only an indirect oath of fidelity by virtue of the King's role in the Treaty settlement as " King in Ireland ", a figurehead position.

* Members of the Oireachtas ( parliament ) would swear an oath of allegiance to the Irish Free State and declare their fidelity to the King.

" Trouw " is a Dutch word meaning " fidelity ", " loyalty ", or " allegiance ", and is cognate with the English adjective " true ".

:" I declare on my honour and faith that I will devote my best ability to the maintenance of religion, of the estates of the realm, and of the imperial ascendancy of the British Empire ; and that, consistently with my allegiance to the sovereign of these realms, I will promote with discretion and fidelity the above objects, being those of the Primrose League.

On 8 April 1203, Ban Kulin of Bosnia declared solemnly his allegiance to the Roman Catholic Church and confirmed his fidelity to the King of Hungary.