Meaning of "mesne lord" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF MESNE LORD

mesne lord

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MESNE LORD

Mesne lord is a noun.

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WHAT DOES MESNE LORD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mesne lord

A 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. A mesne lord did not hold land directly of the king, that is to say he was not a tenant-in-chief. His subinfeudated estate was called a "mesne estate" or Afterlehen in the Holy Roman Empire. He was thus an intermediate or "middle" tenant, which status is reflected in the mediaeval French word mesne, in modern French moyen. Although mesne lords continued to exist after the abolition of any further subinfeudation by the statute of Quia Emptores, with time and the loss of records, it came to be assumed that most land was held directly of the crown. Escheat in want of heirs to mesne lords was abolished by the Administration of Estates Act 1925.

Definition of mesne lord in the English dictionary

The definition of mesne lord in the dictionary is a lord who held land from a superior lord and kept his own tenants on it.

TRANSLATION OF MESNE LORD

Find out the translation of mesne lord to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of mesne lord from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mesne lord» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: mesne主
• Translator English - Spanish: señor mesne
• English: mesne lord
• Translator English - Hindi: मध्यवर्ती प्रभु
• Translator English - Arabic: mesne الرب
• Translator English - Russian: третье лицо господин
• Translator English - Portuguese: senhor mesne
• Translator English - Bengali: মেসন প্রভু
• Translator English - French: mesne seigneur
• Translator English - Malay: Mesne tuan
• Translator English - German: Herr mesne
• Translator English - Japanese: mesneの領主
• Translator English - Korean: mesne 영주
• Translator English - Javanese: Meseh gusti
• Translator English - Vietnamese: mesne chúa
• Translator English - Tamil: மகனே
• Translator English - Marathi: मेसेन लॉर्ड
• Translator English - Turkish: Mesne lord
• Translator English - Italian: mesne signore
• Translator English - Polish: Pan mesne
• Translator English - Ukrainian: третя особа пан
• Translator English - Romanian: lord mesne
• Translator English - Greek: mesne άρχοντας
• Translator English - Afrikaans: mesne Here
• Translator English - Swedish: mesne herre
• Translator English - Norwegian: mesne herre

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MESNE LORD»

Discover the use of mesne lord in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mesne lord and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

An Historical Introduction to the Land Law

We must for this reason distinguish the case of the mesne tenant and his mesne lord from the case of the tenant in chief and the king. (i) The mesne tenant and his mesne lord. How far could the mesne tenant alienate his land without the ...

Sir William Searle Holdsworth, 1927

Wharton's concise dictionary

The estate or manor held by a mesne lord. 2. The right of the mesne; the tenure of the mesne lord. Also spelled mesnality, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1004. Means the right of the mesne. Mesne [fr. medius, Lat], middle, intermediate.

Ar Lakshmanan, John Jane Smith Wharton, 2009

A Dictionary of Words and Phrases Used in Ancient and Modern Law

Apostates. Mescroyant. An old term for an infidel. Mese. But. A house and that appurtenant thereto. Mesnality. Same as MESNALTY. Mesnalty. The seigniory of a mesne lord. Mesne. The middle between two extremes. That between two others.

Arthur English, 2000

Land Law Directions

King Mesne lord Mesne lord Mesne lord Mesne lord Mesne lord Villein Villein Villein Villein Villein Villein Villein Villein Villein Villein Villein Villein Tenant in chief Tenant in chief subinfeudation the process of making new grants of land under ...

Sandra Clarke, Sarah Greer, 2014

History of the English Law: From the Time of the Saxons, to ...

r therefore fall upon a tenant who had a mesne lord; that was bound to acquit him towards the chief lord: such tenant, .however, after he had replevied the distress, could not deny the title of the chief lord to his services and customs ; and when ...

John Reeves, 1814

The Law-dictionary: Explaining the Rise, Progress, and ...

The King was therefore styled Lord Paramount; A. was both tenant and Lord, or was a Mesne Lord, and B. was called Tenant paravail, or the lowest tenant, being he who was supposed to make avail or profit of the land. 1 1?ist. 296: 2 Comm. c  ...

Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, 1811

A new abridgment of the law

(H).] Fit*. N. B. Every other lord, of whom an estate is holden, is, from his situT J3S * ation between the king and the tenant paravail, called mesne lord ; yet, as one manor may be holden of another manor, one mesne lord may be lord paramount  ...

Matthew Bacon, Henry Gwillim, 1798

The Legal Observer, Or, Journal of Jurisprudence

Lands, of which persons attainted of petit treason or murder, after the 31st December 1836, shall be seised, shall escheat to the king. 5. In those cases where rents, &c. shall be payable to a mesne lord, in respect of any lands, such lands shall ...

‎1836

The law-dictionary

In such case the tenant shall have judgment to be acquitted or indemnified by the Mesne Lord; and if he makes default therein, or does not appear originally to the tenant's writ, he shall be forejudged of his mesnalty, and the tenant shall hold ...

Giles Jacob, Kashi Nath Upadhyaya, 1811

Law-dictionary Explaining the Rise, Progress and Present ...

The King was therefore styled Lord Paramount: A. was both tenant and Lord, or was a Mesne Lord, and B. was called Tenant paravail, or the lowest tenant, being he who was supposed to make avail or profit of the land. 1 Inst. 296 : 2 Comm. e.

Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, 1820