mesne
Americanadjective
adjective
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intermediate or intervening: used esp of any assignment of property before the last
a mesne assignment
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rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
Etymology
Origin of mesne
1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French, spelling variant of meen mean 3
Example Sentences
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The “shirra” has a demesne in letters as broad as a countryside, a band of mesne vassals and a host of Eildon hillsmen, Tweedside cottiers, minor feudatories and forest retainers attached to the “Abbotsford Hunt.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
The writ is specially endorsed with the plaintiff’s claim to recover the land with or without rent or mesne profits, and summary judgment obtained if no substantial defence is disclosed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
But in no case shall the person of the defendant be imprisoned for the debt, though the process, whether original, mesne, or final, be for the form sake directed against his person.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Lord Cottenham introduced Bill to abolish arrest on mesne process.
From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry
No married woman is liable to arrest either on mesne or final process.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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