| Demesne | n. [ OE. demeine, demain, rule, demesne, OF. demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine, power, F. domaine domain, fr. L. dominium property, right of ownership, fr. dominus master, proprietor, owner. See Dame, and cf. Demain, Domain, Danger, Dungeon. ] (Law) A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use. [ Written also demain. ] Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]
Ancient demesne. (Eng. Law) See under Ancient. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Mesne | a. [ Cf. Mean intermediate. ] (Law) Middle; intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a tenant to the superior, but lord or superior to the second grantee, and hence is called the mesne lord. [ 1913 Webster ]
Mesne process, intermediate process; process intervening between the beginning and end of a suit, sometimes understood to be the whole process preceding the execution. Blackstone. Burrill. --
Mesne profits, profits of premises during the time the owner has been wrongfully kept out of the possession of his estate. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]
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