Parallel

Extending in the same direction, and in all parts equidistant; hav- See Cronin v. R. Co., 144 Mass. 254, 10 N. E. 833. In the specification of a patent the word was construed in its popular sense of going side by side and not in its purely mathematical sense; 2 App. Cas. 423; and so in Fratt v. Woodward, 32 Cal. 231, 01 Am. Dee. 573; Williams v. Jackson, 5 Johns. (N. Y.) 480; where it was held that parallel lines were not necessarily straight lines. As to parallel and competing railroads, see Merger; Railroads; Restraint of Trade. PARAMOUNT (par, by, mounter, to ascend). Above; upwards. Kelli. Norm. Diet. Paramount espccifid, above specified.

Plowd. 200 a.

That which is superior; usually applied to the highest lord of the fee of lauds, tenements, or hereditaments.

Fitzh. N. B. 135.

Where A lets land to B, and he underlets them to C, in this ease A is the paramount and B is the mesne landlord.

See 2 Bla. Com. 00; 1 Thomas, Co. Litt. 484, n. 79, 485, n. 81; Mesne.