Attorn
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
To turn over; to transfer to another money or goods; to assign to some particular use or service. Kennett, Par. Ant. 283. — ^In Feudal Law. Used of a lord's transferring the homage and service of his tenant to a new lord.
Bracton, 81, 82; 1 Sullivan, Lect. 227.
In Modern Law. ^or the tenant of one to acknowledge or agree that the fee is in another, or that such other is his landlord.
3 A. K. Marsh. (Ky.) 611.
A valid attornment may be made to one in privity with the landlord, as to the vendee on sale of the premises, but an attornment to a stranger is void.