paramount adjective arch, beyond compare, beyond comparison, cardinal, champion, chief, crowning, extraordinary, first, foremost, grand, great, greatest, head, hegemonic, hegemonical, highest, incomparable, inimitable, leading, main, master, matchless, memorable, model, notable, peerless, preeminent, prepollent, prepotent, primary, prime, principal, prominent, regnant, reigning, salient, second to none, significant, sovereign, summus, supereminent, superior, superlative, supreme, top, transcendent, transcendental, unequaled, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivaled, unsurpassed, without parallel, worthy of notice, worthy of remark
See also: absolute, best, cardinal, central, critical, crucial, dominant, essential, ideal, imperative, important, influential, leading, major, master, material, necessary, noteworthy, outstanding, peremptory, predominant, preferential, prevailing, primary, prime, principal, professional, prominent, salient, sovereign, stellar, superior, superlative, vital
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.
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