Lord paramount
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A term applied to the King of England as the chief feudal proprietor, the theory of the feudal system being that all lands in the realm were held mediately or immediately from him.
See De Peyster v. Michael, 6 N. Y. 495, 57 Am. Dec. 470; Opinion of Justices, 66 N. H. 629, 33 Atl. 1076.