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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Lord Cottenham introduced Bill to abolish arrest on mesne process.
From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry
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
No married woman is liable to arrest either on mesne or final process.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There were times when he thought he should have to come upon Lionel Verner for the mesne profits, he observed.
From Verner's Pride by Mrs. Henry Wood
To successive priors, as mesne lords, it also owed its earliest municipal privileges.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
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