mesne
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But, if these mesne tenants had possessed equal rights of voting with tenants in chief, it is impossible to conceive that they would have thought of claiming so unreasonable an exemption.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
They'll probably, ere long, find their way in that direction—for how," replied Mr. Quirk, "he's ever to make up, poor devil, the mesne profits"—— "Mean profits?—is that all you call them, gents?
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren
The mesne profits you have received and appropriated since Squire Trevlyn's death.
From Trevlyn Hold by Mrs. Henry Wood
No married woman is liable to arrest either on mesne or final process.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
But in no case shall the person of the defendant be imprisoned for the debt, though the process, whether original, mesne, or final, be for the form sake directed against his person.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
