PARAGE. Equality of name or blood, but more especially of land in the partition of an inheritance among co-heirs, hence comes disparage2 and disparagement3. Co. Litt. 166.
PARAGIUM. A Latin term which signifies equality. It is derived4 from the adjective par1, equal, and made a substantive5 by the addition of agium; 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 681.
2. In the ecclesiastical law, by paragium is understood the portion which a woman gets on her marriage. Ayl. Par. 336.
PARAMOUNT6. That which is superior.
2. It is usually applied7 to the highest lord of the fee, of lands, tenements8, 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.
PARAPHERNALIA9. The name given to all such things as a woman has a right to retain as her own property, after her hushand's death; they consist generally of her clothing, jewels, and ornaments10 suitable to her condition, which she used personally during his life.
2. These, when not extravagant11, she has a right to retain even against creditors12; and, although in his lifetime the hushand might have given them away, he cannot bequeath such ornaments and jewels by his will. 2 Bl. Com. 430; 2 Supp. to Ves. jr. 376; 5 Com. Dig. 230; 2 Com. Dig. 212; 11 Vin. Ab. 176; 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 8996-7.
PARATITLA, civil law. An abbreviated13 explanation of some titles or books of the Code or Digest.
PARATUM HABEO. A return made by the sheriff to a capias ad respondendum, which signified that he had the defendant14 ready to bring into court. This was a fiction where the defendant was at large. Afterwards be was required by statute15 to take bail16 from the defendant, and he returned cepi corpus and bail bond. But still he might be ruled to bring in the body. 7 Penn. St. Rep. 535.
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