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Mesne
Webster's Dictionary
(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.