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attornment n. 承認新地主 承認新地主 Attornment \ At* torn" ment\, n. [ OF. attornement, LL. attornamentum. See { Attorn}.] ( Law) The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord. -- Burrill. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster] ATTORNMENT, estates. Was the agreement of the tenant to the grant of theseignory, or of a rent, or the agreement of the donee in tail, or tenant forlife, or years, to a grant of a reversion or of a remainder made to another. Co. Litt. 309; Touchs. 253. Attornments are rendered unnecessary, even inEngland, by virtue of sundry statutes, and they are abolished in the UnitedStates. 4 Kent, Com. 479; 1 Hill. Ab. 128, 9. Vide 3 Vin. Ab. 317; 1 Vern. 330, n.; Saund. 234, n. 4; Roll. Ab. h. t.; Nelson' s Ab. h. t.; Com. Dig. h. t.
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