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mesne lord was a lord in the feudal system who had vassals who held land from him, but who was himself the vassal of a higher lord.
Kaynak: Mesne lordIn property law , a
mesne assignment is an intermediate assignment in a series of assignments which occurs prior to the final assignment.
Kaynak: Mesne assignmentBy law, trespass for
mesne profits is a suit against someone who has been ejected from property that did not belong to them.
Kaynak: Trespass to landThe tenants were termed
mesne lord s, with regard to those holding from them, the immediate tenant being tenant in capite. The lowest
Kaynak: SubinfeudationThe middle lords or
mesne lords (who could be common persons) and had granted land for service to those lower on the social scale could
Kaynak: Quia EmptoresThis was held from a superior overlord , ( a
mesne lord ), or from the crown itself in which case the holder was termed a tenant-in-chief
Kaynak: Tenement (law)written, or printed, any such original grant, or any such deed,
mesne conveyance, or other instrument whatsoever, by which any quantity of
Kaynak: Stamp Act 1712and where land was held by a
mesne lord (that is to say, an area in which rights reserved to the king had been devolved into private hands).
Kaynak: Liberty (division)the lord , the lord paramount, who held his fief from no superior lord, and was thus opposed to
mesne lord , one who held from a superior.
Kaynak: Lord Paramount