Mesne Assignment
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
If A. grant a lease of land to B., and L. assign his interest toC., and C. in his turn assign his interest therein to D., in this case the assignments so made by B. and C. would ba termed “mesne assignments;” that is, they would be assigaments intervening between A.’s original grant and the vesting of D.’s interest in the land under thelastassignment.
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