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Regardant   Listen
adjective
Regardant  adj.  (Written also regardant)  
1.
Looking behind; looking backward watchfully. "(He) turns thither his regardant eye."
2.
(Her.) Looking behind or backward; as, a lion regardant.
3.
(O.Eng.Law) Annexed to the land or manor; as, a villain regardant.





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"Regardant" Quotes from Famous Books



... Court of King's Bench; whereupon, on June 22, 1772, judgment was given for the Negro. The basis of the decision, the theme of the argument, was that the only kind of slavery known to English law was villeinage, that the Statute of Tenures (1660) (12 Car. 11, c. 24) expressly abolished villeins regardant to a manor and by implication villeins in gross. The reasons for the decision would hardly stand fire at the present day. The investigation of Paul Vinogradoff and others have conclusively established that there was ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various


Words linked to "Regardant" :   heraldry, backward


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