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View synonyms for mesne
mesne
[ meen ]
adjective
, Law.
- intermediate or intervening.
mesne
/ miːn /
adjective
- intermediate or intervening: used esp of any assignment of property before the last
a mesne assignment
- mesne profitsrents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mesne1
C15: from legal French meien in the middle, mean ³
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Example Sentences
An important alteration in the law took place this session, in the abolition of imprisonment for debt on mesne process.
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Having effected this object it seemed but right to abolish imprisonment on mesne process.
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Resigned to accept position of Register of Mesne Conveyances, a very important office which he held for several years.
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Vavassors, that is, mesne tenants, are particularly mentioned in one enumeration of barons attending the court.
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The point of particular reform aimed at by the Bill was to abolish what was called arrest on mesne process.
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