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mesne

[meen]

Origin

adjective Law.

intermediate or intervening.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French, spelling variant of meen mean³

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the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact

nullification or withdrawal, especially of an offer to contract

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mesne (miːn)

—*adj*
1.	intermediate or intervening: used esp of any assignment of property before the last: a mesne assignment
2.	mesne profits rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land

[C15: from legal French meien in the middle, mean³]

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mesne

mid-15c., altered spelling (by Fr. influence) of Anglo-Fr. meen "mean" (see mean (adj.); also cf. demesne).

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