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Definition of Attorning
1. attorn [v] - See also: attorn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attorning
Literary usage of Attorning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New England Company of 1649 and John Eliot: The Ledger for the Years by George Parker Winship (1920)
"... argued several things concerning the said tenants about their attorning tenants
to Colonel Bedingfield and paying him rent and other matters relating to ..."
2. Benjamin's Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property: With References by Judah Philip Benjamin, Arthur Beilby Pearson, Hugh Fenwick Boyd, Charles Lyon Corbin (1884)
"... passed to Knight's assignees: but Lord Ellenborough attorning to said : "
Whatever the rule may be between buyer and ..."
3. An Analytical Digested Index to the Common Law Reports: From the Time of by Thomas Coventry, Samuel Hughes (1832)
"Nicholson v. Sherman, 1 Keb. 116. pL 20. 2. No action lice for not attorning, or
for not making livery, or tor other matter where there is damnum ..."
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