释义 |
`1`attorn or attornment `2` "DUHAIME'S ONLINE LEGAL DICTIONARY"
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. |