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.
To agree to continue as a tenant under a new Landlord. Without such a provision in a sublease, should the Sublessor default under the Master Lease, the rights of the Subtenant will terminate regardless of the term of the sublease.
The creation, by agreement, of the relationship of landlord and tenant where the mortgagor remains in possession of the property as a tenant of the mortgagee.
acknowledgement of a purchaser as the new landlord
A tenants formal to be tenant of the new landlord.
The agreement of a party to recognize a third party as a permissible successor party to a contract; most often, the agreement of a tenant to pay rent to a new landlord, especially a mortgagee who has foreclosed.
A tenant's formal agreement to be a tenant of a new landlord.
The act of a tenant formally agreeing to become the tenant of a successor landlord; as in attorning to a mortgagee who has foreclosed on the leased premises.
Attornment occurs once a tenant has agreed to recognize (and pay rent to) a new person/entity as the owner of their rented property.
To consent, implicitly or explicitly, to a transfer of a right. Often used to describe a situation where a tenant, by staying on location after the sale of the leased property, accepts to be a tenant of the new landlord; or where a person consents to ("attorns to") the jurisdiction of a court which would not have otherwise had any authority over that person.
Agreement by a tenant to accept a replacement landlord.
Attornment (from Fr. tourner, "to turn"), in English real property law, is the acknowledgment of a new lord by the tenant on the alienation of land. Under the feudal 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.
