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What is an attornment?

What is an attornment? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (feudal law) The consent of a tenant to the transfer of his relationship to his landlord to another person.
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The attornment is much less drastic and intrusive into the rights of the mortgagee.
Attornment was also extended to all cases of lessees for life or for years.
His subsequent procedural failures under Florida law do not invalidate that attornment.
These rules, based on territoriality, sovereignty, independence and attornment, were held to be outmoded.
Attornment by the bailee was required when the delivery order was transferred.
Attornment clauses in mortgages are rarely created today, but the official receiver may come across old mortgages still containing such clauses.

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