Mesne profits

Intermediate profits; that is, profits which have been accruing between two given periods. Thus, after a party has recovered the land itself in an action of ejectment, he frequently brings another action for the purpose of recovering the profits which have been accruing or arising Out of the land between the time when his title to the possession accrued or was raised and the lime of his recovery in the action of ejectment, and such an action is thence termed an "action for mesne profits."

Brown.