Mesnality
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
The manor of a mesne lord.