Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To agree to remain as a tenant of property after the transfer of its ownership.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To turn over to another; transfer; assign.
- In old English law, to turn or transfer, as homage or service, to a new possessor, and accept tenancy under him.
- In feudal law, to turn or transfer homage and service from one lord to another. This was the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants upon the alienation of the estate.
- In modern law, to acknowledge being the tenant of one who was not the landlord originally, but claims to have become such.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive, law To transfer one's obligations to a person to another person.
- v. intransitive, law To consent to the transfer of one's obligations as tenant under a lease to a new landlord.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. (Feudal Law) To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate.
- v. (Modern Law) To agree to become tenant to one to whom reversion has been granted.
WordNet 3.0
- v. acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord
Etymologies
- From Middle English attournen, from Old French atorner ("designate"), from a- ("to") + torner ("turn"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English attournen, from Old French atorner, to assign to : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + torner, to turn; see turn. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“One could ask them to voluntarily attorn to those standards, but there would be no recourse if the request were brushed off.”
“He can be made to attorn to his parents, to go to school, etc.”
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“You and this site also agree and hereby irrevocably submit and attorn to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the courts of the Province of Ontario with respect to such matters.”
“The Attorney [from Latin, attorn = to twist or turn] is the mediator.”
“The supreme judicial court shall have jurisdiction, upon an information in equity filed by the attorn ej'-general, to enforce all the terms and pro - visions of this act, — so as to read as follows: — Section careandmain -”
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“(such as a bank or other lender) comes into possession of or acquires title to the property, the tenant agrees to "attorn to" or essentially recognize the mortgagee as the new landlord.”
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