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Paravail

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Inferior; subordinate. Tenant paravail signified the lowest tenant of land, being the tenant of a mesne lord. He was se called because he was supposed to make "avail" or profit of the land for another.

Cowell; 2 Bl. Comm. 60.