attornment

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Etymology[edit]

From Old French atorner (“to turn”), through Middle English with the suffix -ment.

Noun[edit]

attornment (countable and uncountable, plural attornments)

  1. (feudal law) The consent of a tenant to the transfer of his relationship to his landlord to another person.

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