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

PARAMOUNT (Anglo-Fr. paramont, up above, See also:

• PAR (Lat. par, equal)

par el mont, up or on See also:

• TOP (cf. Dan. top, Ger. Topf, also meaning pot)

top of the See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain)  , See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior, supreme, holding the highest authority, or being of the greatest importance . The word was first used, as a See also:

• TERM

term of feudal See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, of the See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

lord, the " lord See also:

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

paramount," who held his See also:

• FIEF

fief from no superior lord, and was thus opposed to " See also:

• MESNE (an Anglo-French legal form of the O. Fr. meien, mod. moyen, mean, Med. Lat. medianus, in the middle, cf. " mean ")

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," See also:

• PAR (Lat. par, equal)

par d vat, in the valley . The word was confused by See also:

• ENGLISH

English lawyers with " avail," help, assistance, profit, and applied .to the actual working See also:

• TENANT (from Lat. tenere, to hold)

tenant of the See also:

• LAND

land, the lowest tenant or occupier .