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PARAVAIL Definition & Legal Meaning

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Inferior; subordinate. Tenant paravail signified the lowest tenant of land, being the tenant of a mesne lord. He was so called because he was supposed to make “avail” or profit of the land for another. Cowell; 2 Bl. Comm. 60.

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