Mesne

a.1.(Law) 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.

 

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