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Attermoiement

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In canon law. A making terms; a composition, as with creditors.

7 Low. (U. S.) 272, 306.

ATTESTATION (Lat. ad, to, testari, to witness). The act of witnessing an instrument in writing, at the request of the party making the same, and subscribing it as a witness.

3 P. Wms. 254; 2 Ves. Jr. 454; 1 Ves. & B. 362; 3 A. K. Marsh. (Ky.) 146; 17 Pick. (Mass.) 373.