mesne
Example Sentences
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Was it to ask him about the mesne profits?—when he could refund them?—to tell him he would be sued, unless he did refund them?
From Verner's Pride by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
For the charter was sealed and seisin delivered in the presence of Dom Galors, almoner of the Abbey, of Master Porges, seneschal of High March, and of one or two mesne lords of those parts.
From The Forest Lovers by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
Earl township, Pa., assignees, by mesne assignments, of Martin W. Zimmerman and John Zimmerman.
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 Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
Bail in civil matters, since the abolition of arrest on mesne process, is virtually extinct.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
