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attorn [Anglo-French aturner to transfer (allegiance of a tenant to another lord), from Old French atorner to turn (to), arrange, from a- to + torner to turn] : to agree to be the tenant of a new landlord or owner of the same property at·torn·ment n ...
Attorn
Attorn, to make attornment. See ATTORNMENT....
To attorn
To attorn, means acknowledge the relation of a tenant to a new landlord, Mohd. Ilyas v. Mohd. Adil, AIR 1994 Del 212....
Quem redditum reddit
Quem redditum reddit, means 'which return he made'. A writ for a grantee of a rent (not a rent service) to force the tenant to consent to the transfer, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259.Is a judicial writ which lay for him to whom a rent-seck or rent-charge was granted, by fine levied in the King's court, against the tenant of the land who refused to attorn to him, thereby to cause him to attorn, Old N.B. 126....
attorney
attorney pl: -neys [Anglo-French atorné legal representative, from past participle of atorner to designate, appoint, from Old French, to prepare, arrange see attorn ] : a person authorized to act on another's behalf ;esp : lawyer see also attorney-in-fact compare counsel ...
Attornment
Attornment [fr. tourner, Fr., to turn], the acknowledgement of a new lord on the alienation of land, and the assent or agreement of the tenant to attorn, as 'I become tenant to the purchaser.'-Co. Litt. 309. By s. 151 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, replacing 4 Anne, c. 16, ss. 9, 10, all grants and conveyances of lands, rents, reversions, etc., are good without the attornment of the tenants, but notice of the grants must be given to the tenants, before which they are not prejudiced by the payment of any rent to the grantor, or breach of the condition for non-payment, and by the same section of the (English) Act of 1925, replacing the (English) Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (11 Geo. 2, c. 19), s. 11, attornments made by tenants to strangers claiming title to the estate of their landlord are null and void, and their landlord's possession is not affected thereby, except as provided by s. 151, ibid.The 'Attornment Clause' in a deed of mortgage is a clause whereby, for better sec...
Per qu' servitia
Per qu' servitia, a judicial writ issuing from the note of a fine; it lay for cognisee of a manor, seigniory, chief rent, or other services to compel him who was tenant of the land at the time of the note of the fine levied, to attorn unto him, Old N.B. 155....
Quid Juris clamat
Quid Juris clamat, a judicial writ issued out of the record of a fine, which remained with the custos brevium of the Common Pleas before it was engrossed: it lay for the grantee of a reversion or a remainder, when the particular tenant would not attorn, Reg. Jud. 571....
Acknowledgment-money
Acknowledgment-money, a sum formerly paid in some parts of England by copyhold tenants on the death of their lords, as a recognition of their new lords, in like manner as money is usually paid on the attornment of tenants. See COPYHOLDS....
Notice to quit
Notice to quit. Where there is a tenancy from year to year subsisting, it can only be put an end to by notice to quit, which may be given by either party, and must be given one half-year previously to the expiration of the current year of tenancy, so as to expire at the same period of the year in which the tenant entered upon the premises. This rule is to be invariably followed in all cases, except where there is some special agreement between the parties to a different effect, or where a particular local custom intervenes, or where the (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, applies, in which case, by s. 25 of that Act, a notice must be given to terminate the tenancy twelve months from the end of the then current year of the tenancy.Where the term of a lease is to end on a precise day, there is no occasion for a notice to quit previously to bringing an action of ejectment because both parties are equally apprised of the termination of the term. If a tenant continue in possession by...
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