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单词 attornment
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attornmentn.

Brit. /əˈtəːnm(ə)nt/, U.S. /əˈtərnmənt/
Forms: late Middle English–1600s attornement, late Middle English–1600s attournement, 1500s–1600s attournment, 1500s–1600s atturnament, 1500s–1600s atturnement, 1500s–1600s atturnment, 1600s– attornment.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French attornement.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman attornement, attournement, attornament transference of homage and service (13th cent.) < atorner attorn v. + -ment -ment suffix.Compare post-classical Latin attornamentum, atturnamentum appointment as attorney (13th cent. in a British source), tenant's acknowledgement of a new lord (from 14th cent. in British sources), transfer as a token of seisin (15th cent. in a British source).
Law.
1. Originally in Feudal Law: the transference of homage and service by a tenant to a new feudal lord. Later in modern law: legal acknowledgement of a new landlord by a tenant.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > tenure in feu > transference of homage to new lord
attornment?1530
1426 in Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica (1837) IV. 250 (MED) John and Anne shall haue liuere of þe seide londes and tenements and attournement of þe tenauntz, whoos attournement beth nedefull onely in þe fourme aboueseide.
?1530 St. German's Dyaloge in Englysshe xx. f. xliii The feffe hath right..to the rentes, if there be atturnament.
1601 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law ii. f. 10v No attournement can make an euill graunt to bee good.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. ii. v. 72 The lord also could not alienate his seignory without the consent of his tenant, which consent of his was called an attornment.
1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. v. 188 The necessity for attornment was done away with by 4 and 5 Anne, c. 16.
2009 A. W. Fitzgerald in Commerc. Leasing in Troubled Times 163/2 Many modern leases require an attornment by the tenant to a superior lessor or mortgagee.
2. An act of turning property, money, etc., over to another; assignment or transference of property to another.
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society > law > transfer of property > [noun]
release1344
alienationc1425
conveying1483
transportc1485
state making1487
conveyance1523
designation1573
transferring1573
assignation1579
dispose1591
assignment1592
convey1592
disposing1638
disposurea1649
attornment1650
abalienation1656
transfer1674
disposal1697
conveyancing1714
transference1766
disposition1861
c1523 J. Rastell Expos. Terminorum Legum Anglorum sig. f.3 Yf I grauunt iiii. dyuers rentis to one man & the tenant of the land attornyth to ye graunt by payment of a peny or of a halfpeny in ye name of attornement of all the rentis this attornement shall put hym in seisyn of al ye rent.
1650 C. Elderfield Civil Right Tythes xxxi. 251 The Attournment or making them over to Man to be received by him.
1847 Law Jrnl. Rep. 16 The defendant must contend that an attornment is equivalent to an eviction, but there is no foundation for such a position.
2017 Plus Company Updates (Nexis) 17 Nov. The law cannot be regarded as settled in the area of assignments and attornment of moneys.
3. Originally and chiefly Canadian. The action of accepting or consenting to the jurisdiction of a particular court, government, territory, etc.
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1858 R. A. Harrison Common Law Procedure Act 1856 Note 77/2 There is such a thing as attornment to the jurisdiction.
2018 Edmonton (Alberta) Sun (Nexis) 9 Sept. (Final ed.) a60 Chappel also said Hill participated in Superior Court hearings—which is called attornment—so he cannot assert the court has no jurisdiction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).
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