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mesne 
  adj  (Law) 
1 intermediate or intervening: used esp. of any assignment of property before the last 
a mesne assignment  
2 mesne profits rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land 
  (C15: from legal French meien in the middle, mean3) 


mesne lord 
  n (in feudal society) a lord who held land from a superior lord and kept his own tenants on it