intermediate or intervening: used esp of any assignment of property before the last
a mesne assignment
2. mesne profits
Word origin
C15: from legal French meien in the middle, mean3
mesne in American English
(min)
adjective
1. Law
middle; intermediate; intervening: mesne profits are profits accruing from the time possession of land has been improperly withheld from its rightful owner until his or her reinstatement in possession of the property