Paravail
Defined in 8 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is the immediate tenant to one who holds of another. He is called tenant paravail because it is presumed he has the avails or profits of the land. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 135; 2 Inst. 296.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Tenant para vail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is the immediate tenant to one who holds of another, lie is called tenant para vail because it is presumed he has the avails or profits of the land. Fitzh. N. B. 135; Co. 2d Inst. 290.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
peraraile, Paraval, I. fr.
In English law. Below; at the bottom. Pararal les poantz: below the bridges.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
The lowest tenant of land was so called, he who held of the mesne lords, and was supposed to occupy the land.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Below; inferior. Burrill derives the word from the French par, by, and avaler, to descend,, to be under; and contrasts it in etymology as well as in conventional meaning with its correlative paramount, q. v. Lord Coke and other ancient writers think that the last or lowest tenant was called the tenant ^ar avails, — that is, by the avayls, avails, or profits, — because he was the one who made the land profitable to himself and to the lords above him. We prefer Burrill's suggestion; but the conflict is a good example of the delusiveness of the system of etymological derivations. Whatever the origin of the term, it was applied to either the holder or the title.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
Tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is the immediate tenant to one sumed he has the avails or profits of the land. F.N. B. 135; 2 Inst. 296.