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Paramount
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(Anglo-Fr. paramont, up above, par a 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 val, 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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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Paramount'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/paramount.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Paramount'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/paramount.html. 1910.
