Mesne
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
WRIT OF. The name of an ancient and now obsolete writ, which lies when the lord paramount distrains on the tenant para vail: the latter shall have a writ of mesne against the lord who is mesne.
Fitzh. N. B. 316.