As there are now few freehold estates traceable to any mesne or intermediate lord, escheats, when they do occur, fall to the king as lord paramount.
Persons holding directly from the king and granting to others were the king's tenants in capite, and were the mesne lords of their tenants.
The point of particular reform aimed at by the Bill was to abolish what was called arrest on mesne process.
Mesne process, translated into English, means middle process, and the idea was to lock a defendant up in the middle of the trial and keep him there in case it turned out at the end of the proceedings that he owed the money.
There are many stories of this kind, and it was an obvious result of the system of arrest on mesne process.
When," he said, "arrest on mesne process was abolished shortly after the passing of the Reform Bill it was then said that credit would be disturbed, and that traders would not be able to carry on their business.
This and many another case was before My Lords and known to the intelligent Commons when the question of the abolition of arrest on mesne process came up for discussion in 1837.
Arrest on mesne process was abolished, not ungrudgingly it is true, but it came to an end, and a commission was set up in 1839 to inquire and report upon the whole system of imprisonment for debt.
But, if these mesnetenants had possessed equal rights of voting with tenants in chief, it is impossible to conceive that they would have thought of claiming so unreasonable an exemption.
Vavassors, that is, mesne tenants, are particularly mentioned in one enumeration of barons attending the court.
This they infer from the petitions of the commons that the mesne tenants should be charged with the wages of knights of the shire; since it would not be reasonable to levy such wages from those who had no voice in the election.
He would get the girl married to a mesne of the abbey, or stay!
For the charter was sealed and seisin delivered in the presence of Dom Galors, almoner of the Abbey, of Master Porges, seneschal of High March, and of one or two mesne lords of those parts.
After this came all the mesne lords to do homage for their lands, and among them was Malise le Gai, Lord of Starning and Parrox.
Mesne process, intermediate process; process intervening between the beginning and end of a suit, sometimes understood to be the whole process preceding the execution.
Mesne profits, profits of premises during the time the owner has been wrongfully kept out of the possession of his estate.
Of this he had apprized Sir Robert, who had persisted, nevertheless, in holding possession, and in his claim for themesne rents.
In technical phrase, we believe, he warned Mr. Percy that Sharpe his attorney had directions to commence a suit against him for the mesne rents.
This process could be carried farther till there was a chain of mesne lords between the tenant-in-chief and the actual holder of the land; but the liability for performance of the knight-service was always carefully defined.
In 1086 Erthebrand held Knutsford immediately of William FitzNigel, baron of Halton, who was himself a mesne lord of Hugh Lupus earl of Chester.
Ts'in had only been a fu-yung,--it is not said to what mesne lord.
Thus in 567, when one of the very small vassals (of whom the ruler of Lu was mesne lord) crushed the other, it is explained that the spirits will not spiritually eat the sacrifices (i.
On frequent occasions the petty adjoining "Chinesified" states, of which Lu was practically the mesne lord, are stated to have been "tainted with Eastern barbarian rites.
In fact, at the Peace Conference of 546, it was agreed between the two mesne lords that the vassals of Ts'u should pay their respects to Tsin, and vice versa.
Court of Equity would protect against the rightful owner's claim for the mesne profits.
Misery may make her accessible; I can easily bring myself into contact with them, in their distress; for there are the mesne profits--the mesne profits!
By these means he might secure time, possibly also, favorable terms for the payment of the dreadful arrear of mesne profits, in which he stood indebted to his successor.
The last acts of the kind are those for abolishing Arrest on Mesne Process (see ante, p.
After the Conquest, if not before, Dacre was a mesne manor held of the barons of Greystoke by military suit and service.
The tenants of more than twenty mesne manors attend here, from whom a jury for the whole district is empanelled and sworn; and Dr.
Every mesne lord and free homager, as well as the customary tenants, took an oath of fealty to the Abbot, to be true to him against all men, except the king.
That arrest on mesne process was the means of inflicting an inconceivable amount of unjustifiable suffering, and was often a mere vehicle for oppression--is indisputable.
The reader will bear in mind, that, as explained in a note to the first volume, arrest on mesne process was abolished a few years ago, by statute 1 and 2 Vict.
But how stood the matter of Mr. Titmouse's liabilities to Mr. Aubrey, in respect of the mesne profits during the last two years and more?
Mesne profits, profits of premises during the time the owner has been wrongfully kept out of the possession of his estate.
It is probably not necessary to register every mesne assignment from the proprietor originally registered to the plaintiff.
The writ is specially endorsed with the plaintiff's claim to recover the land with or without rent or mesne profits, and summary judgment obtained if no substantial defence is disclosed.
Court or a judge the only claims which may be joined with one for recovery of land are claims in respect of arrears of rent or double value for holding over, or mesne profits (i.
There were times when he thought he should have to come upon Lionel Verner for the mesne profits, he observed.
