Lord Paramount

Lord Paramount

Paramount (derived from the Anglo-French word "paramont", which means "up above", or "par a mont", meaning "up or on top of the mountain"), is the highest authority, or that 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, (from "par d val", meaning "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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  • lord paramount — A term applied to the King of England as the chief feudal proprietor, the theory of the feudal system being that all lands in the realm were held mediately or immediately from him …   Black's law dictionary

  • lord paramount — A term applied to the King of England as the chief feudal proprietor, the theory of the feudal system being that all lands in the realm were held mediately or immediately from him …   Black's law dictionary

  • lord paramount — The king of England …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • Paramount — Par a*mount, a. [OF. par amont above; par through, by (L. per) + amont above. See {Amount}.] Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; pre[ e]minent; as, a paramount duty. A traitor paramount. Bacon. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • lord in gross — In feudal law, he who is lord, not by reason of any manor, but as the king in respect of his crown, etc. Very lord is he who is immediate lord to his tenant; and very tenant, he who holds immediately of that lord. So that, where there is lord… …   Black's law dictionary

  • lord in gross — In feudal law, he who is lord, not by reason of any manor, but as the king in respect of his crown, etc. Very lord is he who is immediate lord to his tenant; and very tenant, he who holds immediately of that lord. So that, where there is lord… …   Black's law dictionary

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  • Lady paramount — Paramount Par a*mount, a. [OF. par amont above; par through, by (L. per) + amont above. See {Amount}.] Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; pre[ e]minent; as, a paramount duty. A traitor paramount.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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