mesne

[ meen ]

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intermediate or intervening.

Origin of mesne

1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French, spelling variant of meen mean³

And it's not only what Mr. Aubrey will lose, but what he will be liable to—the mesne profits—sixty thousand pounds.

Ten Thousand a-Year (Vol. 2) |Samuel Warren
The trouble arose where he could not summon the mesne grantor, and the new right was given him for that case alone.

The Common Law |Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
In 1205 Farnham had bailiffs, and in 1207 it was definitely a mesne borough under the bishops of Winchester.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 |Various
The resident lord of a manor was often the mesne tenant of one of these greater lords.

The English Village Community |Frederic Seebohm

After the Conquest, if not before, Dacre was a mesne manor held of the barons of Greystoke by military suit and service.

Lays and Legends of the English Lake Country |John Pagen White

mesne

/ (miːn) /

intermediate or intervening: used esp of any assignment of property before the last a mesne assignment

mesne profits rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land

C15: from legal French meien in the middle, mean ³