Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesnes
Literary usage of Mesnes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Mortmain, and Charitable Uses and Trusts by Leonard Shelford (1836)
"That Lands shall not be aliened in Mortmain, where there be mesnes, without their
consent. TOUCHING the king's grant to be made upon inquests re- turned ..."
2. Britton: An English Translation and Notes by Francis Morgan Nichols (1901)
"The mesnes may also aid themselves by exceptions against the tenants ; for they
may demand whether the plaintiffs have anything whereby they are held and ..."
3. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1889)
"... the large meadow, the Bull hey, and the mesnes, the last of which was heretofore
in several closes, but is now in one close only. ..."
4. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1889)
"... the large meadow, the Bull hey, and the mesnes, the last of which was heretofore
in several closes, but is now in one close only. ..."
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