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Mesne
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MesneThe middle between two extremes, that part between the commencement and the end, as it relates to time.
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Time
Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.
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Mesne conveyance
A conveyance between others; an immediate transfer.
Mesne process
Any process issued between original and final process; that is, between the original writ and the execution.
Mesne, writ of
The name of an ancient writ, which lies when: the lord para- mount distrains on the tenant paravail; the latter shall have a writ of mesne against the lord who is mesne.
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Merger
1) Where a greater and lesser thing meet, and the latter loses its separate existence and sinks into the former. It is applied to estates, rights, crimes, and torts. 2) estates. When a greater estate and less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate, the less is immediately merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the latter; example, if there be a tenant for years, and the reversion in fee simple descends to, or is purchased by him, the term of years is merged in the inheritance, and no longer exists; but they must be to one and the same person, at one and the same time, in one and the same right. 3) Criminal law. When a man commits a great crime which includes a lesser, the latter is merged in the former. 4) Rights. Rights are said to be merged when the same person who is bound to pay is also entitled to receive. This is more properly called a confusion of rights, or extinguishment.
Merits
This word is used principally in matters of defence.
Merton, statute of
A statute so called, because the parliament or rather council, which enacted it, sat at Merton, in Surrey.
Mescroyant
Used in our ancient books. An unbeliever.
Mese
An ancient word used to signify house, probably from the French maison; it is said that by this word the buildings, curtilage, orchards and gardens will pass.
Mesne
Mesne conveyance
A conveyance between others; an immediate transfer.
Mesne process
Any process issued between original and final process; that is, between the original writ and the execution.
Mesne, writ of
The name of an ancient writ, which lies when: the lord para- mount distrains on the tenant paravail; the latter shall have a writ of mesne against the lord who is mesne.
Messenger
A person appointed to perform certain duties, generally of a ministerial character.
Messuage
Property. This word is synonymous with dwelling-house; and a grant of a messuage with the appurtenances, will not only pass a house, but all the buildings attached or belonging to it, as also its curtilage, garden and orchard, together with the close on which the house is built.
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Time
Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Mesne conveyance
A conveyance between others; an immediate transfer.
Mesne process
Any process issued between original and final process; that is, between the original writ and the execution.
Mesne, writ of
The name of an ancient writ, which lies when: the lord para- mount distrains on the tenant paravail; the latter shall have a writ of mesne against the lord who is mesne.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Merger
1) Where a greater and lesser thing meet, and the latter loses its separate existence and sinks into the former. It is applied to estates, rights, crimes, and torts. 2) estates. When a greater estate and less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate, the less is immediately merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the latter; example, if there be a tenant for years, and the reversion in fee simple descends to, or is purchased by him, the term of years is merged in the inheritance, and no longer exists; but they must be to one and the same person, at one and the same time, in one and the same right. 3) Criminal law. When a man commits a great crime which includes a lesser, the latter is merged in the former. 4) Rights. Rights are said to be merged when the same person who is bound to pay is also entitled to receive. This is more properly called a confusion of rights, or extinguishment.
Merits
This word is used principally in matters of defence.
Merton, statute of
A statute so called, because the parliament or rather council, which enacted it, sat at Merton, in Surrey.
Mescroyant
Used in our ancient books. An unbeliever.
Mese
An ancient word used to signify house, probably from the French maison; it is said that by this word the buildings, curtilage, orchards and gardens will pass.
Mesne
Mesne conveyance
A conveyance between others; an immediate transfer.
Mesne process
Any process issued between original and final process; that is, between the original writ and the execution.
Mesne, writ of
The name of an ancient writ, which lies when: the lord para- mount distrains on the tenant paravail; the latter shall have a writ of mesne against the lord who is mesne.
Messenger
A person appointed to perform certain duties, generally of a ministerial character.
Messuage
Property. This word is synonymous with dwelling-house; and a grant of a messuage with the appurtenances, will not only pass a house, but all the buildings attached or belonging to it, as also its curtilage, garden and orchard, together with the close on which the house is built.
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