Last Updated ：2025/11/29

mesne lord

Noun

(law) A lord who is intermediate (mesne), in that he is tenant to a higher lord and in turn receives rent from his own tenants of the property

Japanese Meaning

上位の領主から土地を借り、下位の住民や領主に貸し出す中間の領主、すなわち、階層内で中間に位置する人物としての領主

What is this buttons?

The mesne lord inspected the rents collected from his tenants before forwarding his due to the higher lord.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

中間領主は、小作人から徴収した地代を点検してから、上位の領主に自分の支払い分を送った。

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Sense（1）

(law) A lord who is intermediate (mesne), in that he is tenant to a higher lord and in turn receives rent from his own tenants of the property

Thus all the land in the kingdom is supposed to be holden, mediately or immediately, of the sovereign, who is styled the lord paramount, or above all. Such tenants as held under the crown immediately, when they granted out portions of their lands to inferior persons, became also lords with respect to those inferior persons, as they were still tenants with respect to the king; and, thus partaking of a middle nature, were called mesne, or middle, lords. So that if the king granted a manor to A., and he granted a portion of the land to B., now B. was said to hold of A., and A. of the king ... A. was both tenant and lord, or was a mesne lord: and B. was called tenant paravail, or the lowest tenant; being he who was supposed to make avail or profit of the land.

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