PARAMOUN

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PARAMOUNT. That which is superior.
       2. It is usually applied to the highest lord of the fee, of lands, 
  tenements, or hereditaments. F. N. B. 135. Where A lets lands to B, and he 
  underlets them to C, in this case A is the paramount, and B is the mesne 
  landlord. Vide Mesne, and 2 Bl. Com. 91; 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 484, n. 79; Id. 
  485, n. 81.