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verb - acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord
To agree to remain as a tenant of property after its ownership has been transferred.
verb - to acknowledge a new owner as one's landlord
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To agree to remain as a tenant of property after the transfer of its ownership. |
formally make or acknowledge a transfer of something. |
acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord |
Formally make or acknowledge a transfer of something. |
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Attornment (from French tourner, "to turn"), in English real property law, is the acknowledgment of a new lord by the tenant on the alienation of land. Under the feudal system, the relations of landlord and tenant were to a certain extent reciprocal. So it was considered unreasonable to the tenant to subject him to a new lord without his own approval, and it thus came about that alienation could not take place without the consent of the tenant. Attornment was also extended to all cases of lessees for life or for years. The necessity for attornment was abolished by an act of 1705.In mortgages, an attornment clause is a clause whereby the mortgagor attorns tenant to the mortgagee, thus giving the mortgagee the right to distrain, as an additional security.As used in modern legal transactions, the term attornment refers to an acknowledgment of the existence of the relationship of landlord and tenant. A tenant often has the duty under the tenant's lease, particularly in commercial leases, t |