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(a.) 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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Mesne'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/mesne.html. 1828.
 
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