Paracium

The tenure between parceners, viz., that which the youngest owes to the eldest without homage or service. Domesday Book., PARAGE. Equality of blood, name, or dignity, but more especially of land in the partition of an inheritance between coheirs. Co. Litt. 166b. Hence "disparage," and "disparagement." Blount. In Feudal Law. Where heirs took of the same stock and by same title, but from right of primogeniture, or some other cause, the shares were unequal, the younger was said to hold of the elder, jure et titulo paragii, by right and title of parage, being equal in everything but the quantity, and owning no homage or fealty. Calv. Lex. PARAGIUM (Lat. par, equal, and (aqium). 1 Thomas, Co. Litt. 681. Equality. In Ecclesiastical Law. The portion which a woman gets on her marriage. Aylifl Pe, Par. 386.