Assise Sur La Ligece
The ''Assise sur la ligece'' (roughly, "Assize on Allegiance, liege-homage") is an important piece of legislation passed by the Haute Cour of Jerusalem, Haute Cour (High Court) of Jerusalem, the feudal court of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, in an unknown year but probably in the 1170s under Amalric I of Jerusalem. The ''Assise'' formally prohibited the illegal confiscation of fiefs and required all the Monarch, king's vassals to ally against any lord who did so. Such a lord would not be tried, but would be stripped of his land or exiled instead. The king could now legally confiscate a fief if a vassal refused to pay Homage (feudal), homage to him; this had been done in the past but was technically illegal before this ''Assise''. Apparently the ''Assise'' was created after a dispute between Gerard, Lord of Sidon, and King Amalric; Gerard had dispossessed one of his rear-vassals and refused to return the land even when Amalric stepped in. Open warfare was just barely avoide ...
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