mesne
mesne lord

It was the best time I could remember in the De mesne.

They arrived at the edge of the Green Mother's de- mesne.

A man may have his writ or mesne, before he be distrained.

His property could consequently revert to the Crown or to the mesne lord.

Mitton was a mesne manor from the early twelfth century.

'But the Dragon's Fire De mesne is far to the north.

A mesne lord did not hold land directly of the king, that is to say he was not a tenant-in-chief.

The fruit trees bloom in the mists of the Bright De- mesne.

By law, trespass for mesne profits is a suit against someone who has been ejected from property that did not belong to them.

Calculating mesne profits is often regulated by legislatures, but may be litigated in a court of equity.

The combined population of Cliffords Mesne and Gorsley was 1320 in 1876.

It could be held in capite from the king or as a mesne tenancy from a tenant-in-chief.

The bishops claimed to be the mesne lords, while the abbot declared that his house held immediately of the crown.

A grocer with dealings of £200,000 a year once favoured arrest on the mesne process as favourable to creditors.

Every/De- mesne must have a Seer or two, or six, or a dozen.

The overlordship remained with and followed that of Topcliffe, but there were grants as mesne lord to various families over the centuries.

Newport is an ancient mesne borough, occupying an important position on the Welsh Marches.

The mesne lordshire of Addingrove followed that of Whitchurch until 1635.

The district judge may enter judgment for mesne profits accrued after the hearing on application supported if he so requires, by affidavit.

The De- mesne absolute of a Seer is small, a few paces across, and the power use is erratic.

Below the mesne tenant further mesne tenants could hold from each other in series.

A mesne lord is a landlord who has tenants holding under him, while himself holding of a superior lord.

Anchetil was also the mesne lord of Standlake in West Oxfordshire.

The Anglican church parish is combined with Cliffords Mesne.

The mesne process allowed a creditor to have his debtor arrested and detained before the case came to court and judgement was made on it.

His property could consequently revert to the Crown or to the mesne lord.

A mesne lord did not hold land directly of the king, that is to say he was not a tenant-in-chief.

The bishops claimed to be the mesne lords, while the abbot declared that his house held immediately of the crown.

The overlordship remained with and followed that of Topcliffe, but there were grants as mesne lord to various families over the centuries.

By 1279 the Ardernes were mesne lords, collecting rent from the de Lewknor family.

A mesne lord is a landlord who has tenants holding under him, while himself holding of a superior lord.

Anchetil was also the mesne lord of Standlake in West Oxfordshire.

These were held directly from the Crown, unlike all the others, held from Mesne Lords.

This process could be carried farther till there was a chain of mesne lords between the tenant-in-chief and the actual occupier of the land.

The tenants were termed mesne lords, with regard to those holding from them, the immediate tenant being tenant in capite.

By 1359 Wilmington Priory in Sussex, an English cell of the abbey, was the mesne lord.

In the middle were the lords who had no direct relationship with the King, or with the land in question - referred to as mesne lords.

The manor passed from the Langtons to the Hoghtons of Hoghton who held the manor as mesne lord.

A mesne lord was the level of lord in the middle holding several manors, between the lords of a manor and the superior lord.

However, if a mesne lord was involved, then services such as socage, fee and other services might be extracted from the land, either in part or in total.

Walter Giffard's mesne lord was Hugh de Bolebec, whose heirs were the Earls of Oxford.

The middle lords or mesne lords (who could be common persons) and had granted land for service to those lower on the social scale could no longer exist.

An overlord was the person from whom a landholding or a manor was held by a mesne lord or vassal under various forms of feudal land tenure.

:* "'Mitton"', which had the de Staffords as overlords and the de Standons as mesne lords, like Levedale.

By 1123 the mesne lord of one of Wadard's manors was King Henry II's chamberlain Geoffrey de Clinton.

Bracton gives several examples of escheat occurring by a mesne lord (middle lord in the feudal structure): A enfeoffs B at a rent of 10 shillings.

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.

In 1086 FitzOsbern's mesne lord was Anchetil de Greye, who also held Rotherfield Greys in South Oxfordshire.

In the feudal land tenure system, in which all land was held by the sovereign and populated by tenants, serfdom and service to mesne lords was commonplace.

There might be any number of infeudations and subinfeudations to mesne lords, but the chain of seigniory was complete, depending in the last resort upon the king as lord paramount.