1) French word used in English 2) In law, intermediate 3) Intermediate 4) Intermediate in law 5) Intermediate, at law 6) Intermediate, legally 7) Intervening 8) Intervening, at law 9) Intervening, legally 10) Legal middle 11) Legal term for middle
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: (mean, with a silent s) adj. from Norman French for intermediate, the middle point between two extremes. It is seldom used, except in reference to "mesne profits."
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Mesne (an Anglo-French legal form of the O. Fr. meien, mod. moyen, mean, Med. Lat. medianus, in the middle, cf. English mean), middle or intermediate, an adjective used in several legal phrases. ==Placenames== In Lancashire, there are several places with `Mesne` in the name ...
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• (a.) Middle; intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a tenant to the superior, but lord or superior to the second grantee, and hence is called the mesne lord.
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(adj) Mesne (pronounced as mean) is used to qualify a situation in between the two extreme positions. Mense profit is used to represent average profit
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Mesne adjective [ Confer
Mean intermediate.]
(Law) Middle; intervening; as, a
mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a
tenant to the superior, but
lord or superior to the second grantee,...
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The middle between two extremes, that part between the commencement and the end, as it relates to time.Hence the profits wbich a man receives between disseisin and recovery of lands are called mesne profits. Process which is issued in a suit between the original and final process, is called mesne process.In England, the word mesne also applies to a...
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In law, mesne means middle or intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior but grants a part of it to another person. In this case he is a tenant to the superior, but lord or superior to the second grantee.
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mesne (MEEN) 1. In law, happening or appearing between two other things, especially assignments of property; intermediate or intervening. 2. Middle; intervening; such as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds the land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a tenant to the superior, but lord or super...
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