Attornment

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ATTORNMENT, estates. Was the agreement of the tenant to the grant of the
  seignory, or of a rent, or the agreement of the donee in tail, or tenant for
  life, 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 in
  England, by virtue of sundry statutes, and they are abolished in the United
  States. 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.