See also:

• ATTORNMENT (from Fr. tourner, to turn)

ATTORNMENT (from Fr. tourner, to turn)  , in See also:

• ENGLISH

English real See also:

• PROPERTY

property See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, the See also:

• ACKNOWLEDGMENT (from the old acknow, a compound of on- and know, to know by the senses, which passed through the forms oknow, aknow and acknow; acknowledge is formed on analogy of " knowledge ")

acknowledgment of a new See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

lord by the See also:

• TENANT (from Lat. tenere, to hold)

tenant on the See also:

• ALIENATION (from Lat. alienus, belonging to another)

alienation of See also:

• LAND

land . Under the feudal See also:

• SYSTEM

system, the relations of landlord and tenant were to a certain extent reciprocal . So it was considered unreasonable to the tenant to subject him to a new lord without his own approval, and it thus came about that alienation could not take See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place without the consent of the tenant . See also:

• ATTORNMENT (from Fr. tourner, to turn)

Attornment was also extended to all cases of lessees for See also:

• LIFE

life or for years . The See also:

• NECESSITY (Lat. necessitas)

necessity for attornment was abolished by an See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of 1705 . The See also:

• TERM

term is now used to indicate an acknowledgment of the existence of the relationship of landlord and tenant . An attornment-clause, in mortgages, is a clause whereby the mortgagor attorns tenant to the mortgagee, thus giving the mortgagee the right to distrain, as an additional See also:

• SECURITY (Lat. securus, free from care, safe)

security .