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At the bottom; lowest (said of feudal tenants). quotations examples
Of the estate adjoining Cottesford the paravail tenants were members of the family who took their name from that village, and were resident in it, de Cotfelde or […]
1882, James Charles Blomfield, History of the Deanery of Bicester: History of the present deanery of Bicester, Oxon, page 59
The inferior, or paravail tenants, held their lands from the barons, and the barons, or mesne lords, were the grantees of the king […]
1929, Radhabinod Pal, The History of the Law of Primogeniture: With Special Reference to India, Ancient and Modern