Quil fuit son villein et il seisi de luy come de son villein come regardant a son maneir de B.
The expression 'regardant' never occurs in the pleadings at all, but 'regardant to a manor' is used often.
As the contrast is based on pleading and not on title, one and the same person may be taken and described in one case as a villain regardant to a manor, and in another as a villain in gross.
The defendant asserts, rather late in the day, that even if the person in question was not a villain regardant to the manor of C.
I must not omit, however, to refer to one expression which may be taken to stand in the place of the later 'villain regardant to a manor.
His commentary upon Littleton certainly has a passage which shows that he came across opinions implying a difference of status between villains regardantand villains in gross.
The plaintiff's counsel maintains that he could not have been regardant to the manor, as he was going about at large at his free will and as a free man; for this reason A.
Littleton, on villains regardant and in gross, 49.
That is, if the defendant pleaded in bar of an action that the plaintiff was his bondman he generally said, I am not bound to answer A, because he is my villain and I am seised of him as of my villain as regardant to my manor of C.
This last answers, that the servant in question is his villain regardant to the manor of C.
Villain in gross' means a villain without further qualification; 'villain regardant to a manor' means villain by reference to a manor.
Ultimately the plaintiff offers to join issue on the question, whether the servant had been a villain regardant to the manor of C.
But gives to the imagination its regardant power over them.
Another instance will be found in the supporters of Lord Rosmead, which are: "On the dexter side an ostrich and on the sinister side a kangaroo, bothregardant proper.
A swan couchant appears as the crest of Barttelot, a swan regardant as the crest of Swaby, and a swan "rising" will be found as a crest of Guise and as a charge upon the arms of Muntz.
Lion sejant regardant erect is as the foregoing, but with the head turned right round to look backwards (Fig.
The crest of an Irish family named Yeates is said to be: "A shark issuant regardant swallowing a man all proper," and the same device is also attributed to some number of other families.
A mastiff will be found in the crest of Crawshay, and there is a {205} well-known crest of a family named Phillips which is "a dog sejant regardantsurmounted by a bezant charged with a representation of a dog saving a man from drowning.
This identity of condition between the villein regardant and in gross appears to have been, even lately, called in question, and some adhere to the theory which supposes an inferiority in the latter.
The villein regardant might be severed from the manor, with or without land, and would then become a villein in gross.
By this means indeed a villein regardant would become a villein in gross, but all villeins were alike liable to be sold by their owners.
Crest= / an ass's head regardant reproachful, probably charged on the body with a juggins rampant.
The unicorn (regardant on either side of the device) appears for the first time in an English mark.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "regardant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
