Mesne Profits
(n) Mesne profit are the averaged or assumed profit expected to be received by a person in possession of the property.
for a nuisance to real estate, to aver in the declaration the seisin of the plaintiff in demesne as of fee; and this is still necessary in order to estop the record with the land; so that it may run with or attend the title.
mesne profits
n. profits which have accrued while there was a dispute over land ownership.
DEMESNE, Eng. law. The name given to that portion of the Iands of a manor which the lord retained in his own hands for the use of himself and family.
Mesne process
Definition - Noun
[mesne intermediate, intervening, from Anglo-French, alteration of Old French meien middle, from Latin medianus, from medius middle]
: process (as a writ) issued in the course of a proceeding ...
The lands that constituted the manor holdings included terrae tenementales, Latin for "tenemental lands," and terrae dominicales, Latin for "demesne lands." The lord gave the tenemental lands to his followers or retainers in freehold.
Orders issued in the course of the trial (e.g., to produce a witness) were writs of mesne (middle) process.
(c) Persons holding from the lord of the manor, by lease or agreement, or from year to year, land which was originally demesne, or which was once freehold or copyhold and has come into the lord's hands by escheat or forfeiture.
At common law, words of conveyance were give, grant, bargain and sell, alien, enfeoff, release, confirm, quitclaim. Mesne conveyance. A conveyance between others; an immediate transfer. Reconveyance.
 See also: Use, Person, Law, Right, Were
  
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