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Definition of Attornment
1. n. The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord.
Definition of Attornment
1. Noun. (context: feudal legal) The consent of a tenant to the transfer of his relationship to his landlord to another person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Attornment
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Medical Definition of Attornment
1. The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord. Origin: OF. Attornement, LL. Attornamentum. See Attorn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attornment
Literary usage of Attornment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary ...by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1853)
"attornment, why requisite, ibid. What act or words shall amount to an ... Where an
attornment for part of the rent shall be good fur the whole, 369. b. ..."
2. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary ...by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1853)
"Where livery of seisin by an attorney shall be good, and when one acts merely as
such, he cannot thereby prejudice hie own interest, 52. a. attornment. ..."
3. Woodfall's Law of Landlord and Tenant by William Woodfall (1890)
"This necessity of attornment was in some degree diminished by the Statute of
Uses (fr), whereby the possession was immediately executed to the use: and by ..."
4. Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England by John Henry Thomas, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Heneage Finch Nottingham, Edward Coke, Matthew Hale (1836)
"To whom attornment was to be made, ii. uses, ib. or in the king's case, ii.
361, 362, n. (E) 362 attornment to one of two grantees was good as to both, ..."
5. The Touchstone of Common Assurances Being a Plain and Familiar Treatise on by William Sheppard (1826)
"In all cases for the most part where attornment is not needful, there is no means to
... 265 If the graut be absolute, and the attornment be on con- 10. ..."
6. Littleton's Tenures in English by Thomas Littleton, Eugene Wambaugh (1903)
"attornment is as if there be lord and tenant, and the lord will grant by his ...
And attornment is no other in effect, but when the tenant hath heard of the ..."
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