MESNES

Noun

mesnes

plural of mesne

Anagrams

• meness, menses

Source: Wiktionary

MESNE

Mesne, a. Etym: [Cf. Mean intermediate.] (Law)

Definition: 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. Mesne process, intermediate process; process intervening between the beginning and end of a suit, sometimes understood to be the whole process preceding the execution. Blackstone. Burrill.

– Mesne profits, profits of premises during the time the owner has been wrongfully kept out of the possession of his estate. Burrill.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition