Mesnality
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The estate of a mesne tenant. commencement and the end, as it relates to time. In England, the word "mesne" also applies to a dignity; those persons who hold lordships or manors of some superior, who is called "lord paramount," and grant the same to inferior persons, are called "mesne lords."