mesne
Example Sentences
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Still the division into principal tenants, mesne tenants, and cotters is clearly discernible, and the principal tenants are called free in the manor itself as well as in the hamlets.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
Probably the solidi thus paid to him are mesne rents received by the King and accounted for to Theodahad.
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin
Lady," saith he, "the lordship of this castle hold I of yourself without mesne, and to you have I neither wish nor right to refuse it.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
The point of particular reform aimed at by the Bill was to abolish what was called arrest on mesne process.
From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry
He would get the girl married to a mesne of the abbey, or stay! he would marry her elsewhere and get a dowry.
From The Forest Lovers by Maurice Henry Hewlett
