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Mesne Lord
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Mesnalty
Mesnalty, [fr. Law French and English mesne 'middle'] 1. The estate or manor held by a mesne lord. 2. The right of the mesne; the tenure of the mesne lord. Also spelled mesnality, Black's Law Dictionary, … estate or manor held by a mesne lord. 2. The right of the mesne; the tenure of the mesne lord. Also spelled mesnality, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1004 Mesnalty, the right of the mesne.
Mesne
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Mesne, writ of
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Forfeiture
under a licence under the Crown or of a Statute shall be forfeited to the Crown or the mesne lord. Apparently, the Land Charges Act, 1922, abolish-ing copyholds, may not having affected the claim to forfeiture by mesne
Tenure
of the Crown itself. When these tenants granted portions of their lands to inferior persons they were called mesne (middle) lords or barons, with regard to such inferior holders, who were styled tenants paravail, the ultimate tenant … or estate, and feo, wages, pay), over which the owner had but a conditional dominion, acknowledging a superior lord, upon whose pleasure the tenure precariously depended, and without whose consent nothing could be done. And this is
Lord in Gross
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Manor
of it to be held of himself as Lord, and by this process of subinfeudation one or more mesne Lordship or seigniories might be established. Where there were several free tenants holding under the same lord, the
Peer
undecided owing to the establishment of the Irish Free State. The king cannot create a dignity with a mesne between baron and baronets (Co. Litt. 16, b, Hargrave note 8). A member of the House of Lords … Peer, an equal; one of the same rank; a member of the House of Lords, as either Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, or Baron, or Scots or presumably Irish representative peer, although the status
Escheat
the intestate tenant's family. Escheat to the Crown, the Duchy of Lancaster, the Duke of Cornwall and to mesne lords has been abolished by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45(1). The right of the Crown … or echoir, Fr., to happen], a species of reversion; it is a fruit of seigniory, the Crown or lord of the fee, from whom or from whose ancestor the estate was originally derived, taking it as ultimus
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