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A parcel of land. … [Read more...] about PARCELLA TERRAE

For two lines of street railway to be "parallel," within the meaning of a statute, it may not be necessary that the two lines should be parallel for the whole length of each or either route. Exact parallelism is not contemplated. Cronin v. Highland St Ry. Co., 144 Mass. 254, 10 N. E. 833. And see East St. Louis Connecting Ry. Co. v. Jarvis, 92 Fed. 785, 34 C. C. A. 639; … [Read more...] about PARALLEL

The state or condition of holding title to lands jointly by parceners or coparceners, before a division of the joint estate. … [Read more...] about PARCENARY

Above; upwards. That which is superior; usually applied to the highest lord of the fee of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, as distinguished from the mesne (or intermediate) lord. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 135. In the law of real property, the term "paramount title" properly denotes one which is superior to the title with which it is compared, in the sense that the former is the … [Read more...] about PARAMOUNT

A joint heir; one who, with others, holds an estate in coparcenary. … [Read more...] about PARCENER