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Synonyms for mesne

Grammar : Noun
Spell : meen
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Définition of mesne

Origin :
  • mid-15c., "mean;" altered spelling (by French influence) of Anglo-French meen "mean" (Old French meien "middle;" see mean (adj.); also cf. demesne).
  • As in lady of the house : noun woman head of household
Example sentences :
  • And what's he to start with, if there's no mesne profits forthcoming?
  • Extract from : « Ten Thousand a-Year (Vol. 2) » by Samuel Warren
  • The mesne profits you have received and appropriated since Squire Trevlyn's death.
  • Extract from : « Trevlyn Hold » by Mrs. Henry Wood
  • And it's not only what Mr. Aubrey will lose, but what he will be liable to—the mesne profits—sixty thousand pounds.
  • Extract from : « Ten Thousand a-Year (Vol. 2) » by Samuel Warren
  • It is very painful for me to mention the subject, Mr. Aubrey; but have you adverted to the mesne profits?
  • Extract from : « Ten Thousand a-Year (Vol. 2) » by Samuel Warren
  • Resigned to accept position of Register of Mesne Conveyances, a very important office which he held for several years.
  • Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 » by Various
  • Vavassors, that is, mesne tenants, are particularly mentioned in one enumeration of barons attending the court.
  • Extract from : « View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 (of 3) » by Henry Hallam
  • The trouble arose where he could not summon the mesne grantor, and the new right was given him for that case alone.
  • Extract from : « The Common Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Such attachments (on mesne process) can generally be dissolved by the substitution of a bond with surety.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 8 » by Various
  • The resident lord of a manor was often the mesne tenant of one of these greater lords.
  • Extract from : « The English Village Community » by Frederic Seebohm
  • No alliance was actually formed between the king and the mesne nobility against the immediate baronage.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 » by Various

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