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ATTORNMENT (from Fr. tourner, to turn)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 887 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ATTORNMENT (from Fr. tourner, to turn)  , in
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English real
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property law, the acknowledgment of a new lord by the tenant on the alienation of
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land . Under the feudal
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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 place without the consent of the tenant . Attornment was also extended to all cases of lessees for
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life or for years . The necessity for attornment was abolished by an act of 1705 . The
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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 security .

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