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Definition of Paravail
1. a. At the bottom; lowest.
Definition of Paravail
1. Adjective. At the bottom; lowest ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Paravail
1. inferior [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paravail
Literary usage of Paravail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: Containing Full Definitions of the by Alexander Mansfield Burrill (1851)
"paravail. [L. Fr. paraval, from par, and avaler, to descend, to be under. ...
Tenant paravail was the lowest tenant of land, holding of a mesne lord who ..."
2. A Manual of Elementary Law: Being a Summary of the Well-settled Elementary by William Pinckney Fishback (1896)
"Middle lords and tenant paravail.—Persons who held immediately of the ...
The grantee of the middle lord was called tenant paravail, or the lowest tenant. ..."
3. A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: Containing Full Definitions of the by Alexander Mansfield Burrill (1851)
"L. Fr. The lowest tenant, (literally, the under or bottom tenant,) of land, one
who held of a mesne lord.* Litt. sect. 555. See paravail. TEN AUNT. ..."
4. A Law Dictionary and Glossary: Containing Full Definitions of the Principal by Alexander Mansfield Burrill (1860)
"A term applied to the supreme lord of a fee, between whom and the tenant, or
tenant paravail, there was an intermediate or ..."
5. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham, Thomas Day (1812)
"(3) It deserves consideration, whether the release of lord paramount [Note 261.]
is not as insufficient to pass the seigniory to the tenant paravail, ..."
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