Mesne
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
WRIT OF. The name of an ancient writ, which lies when the lord paramount distrains on the tenant paravail. The latter shall have a writ of mesne against the lord who is mesne.
Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 316.