mesne noun & adjective. [mi:n] LME.
[Law French, var. of Anglo-Norman meen MEAN adjective²: for the unetymological s cf. DEMESNE.]
A. noun.
1. = MEAN noun¹ 2, 7. LME-E19.

2. = mesne lord below. M16-E18.
b. adjective.
1. Occurring or performed at a time intermediate between two dates. obsolete exc. Law. M16.
mesne process Hist. any writ or process issued between the primary and the final process. mesne profits the profits of an estate received by a tenant in wrongful possession and recoverable by the landlord.

2. Law (now Hist.). Of a person: intermediate, intervening. E19.
mesne lord a lord holding an estate from a superior feudal lord.

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