paravail

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  1. Inferior; lowest: in feudal law, applied to the lowest tenant holding under a mean or mediate lord, as distinguished from a tenant in capite, who holds immediately of the sovereign. The king therefore was styled lord paramount; A. was both tenant and lord, or was a mesne lord, and B. was called tenant paravail, or the lowest tenant, being he who was supposed to make avail or profit of the land. Blackstone, Com., II. v.

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  1. Also paravaile; from Old French *paraval, par aval, below, from par, by (from Latin per, through), + aval, below, downward, from Latin ad vallem, to the valley: see avale. Cf. paramount, of opposite meaning.
 

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