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PARAMOUNT (Anglo-Fr. paramont, up above, par el mont, up or on top of the mountain)

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 766 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS
PARAMOUNT (Anglo-Fr. paramont, up above, par el mont, up or on top of the mountain) , superior, supreme, holding the highest authority, or being of the greatest importance. The word was first used, as a
term
  of feudal law, of the
lord
 , the "
lord
 
paramount
 ," who held his
fief
  from no superior lord, and was thus opposed to "
mesne
  lord," one who held from a superior. To those who held their fiefs from one who was not a " lord
paramount
  " was given the correlative
term
  " paravail," par d vat, in the valley. The word was confused by
English
  lawyers with " avail," help, assistance, profit, and applied .to the actual working
tenant
  of the
land
 , the lowest
tenant
  or occupier.


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