Attomare rem
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
To attorn or turn over a thing, as money and goods, i. e., to assign or appropriate them to some particular use and service.
Kennett, Par. Ant. 283; Cowell. ' ATTORNATO FACIENDO VEL RECIPIendo.
An obsolete" writ, which commanded a sheriff or steward of a county court or hundred court to receive and admit an attorney to appear for the person who owed suit of court.
Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 156.
ATTORN E (Law Fr.) In old English law. An attorney. Britt. c.
126.