Definition of Attorn

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Attorn
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    To assign; to transfer; assent or acknowledgment to a transfer or assignment. See 13 Ind. 388.

  • Attorn
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In feudal law. To transfer or turn over to another. Where a lord aliened his seigniory, he might, with the consent of the tenant, and in some cases without, attorn or transfer the homage and service of the latter to the alienee or new lord. Bract, fols. 81b, 82. In modern law. To consent to the transfer of a rent or reversion. A tenant is said to attorn when he agrees to become the tenant of the person to whom the reversion has been granted. See Attornment.