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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Earl township, Pa., assignees, by mesne assignments, of Martin W. Zimmerman and John Zimmerman.
Vavassors, that is, mesne tenants, are particularly mentioned in one enumeration of barons attending the court.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
The point of particular reform aimed at by the Bill was to abolish what was called arrest on mesne process.
From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry
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
As there are now few freehold estates traceable to any mesne or intermediate lord, escheats, when they do occur, fall to the king as lord paramount.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
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