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In old English law. An obsolete writ which commanded a sheriff or steward of a county court or hundred court to receive and admit an attorney to appear for the person who owed suit of court Fifczh. Nat. Brev. 156. … [Read more...] about ATTORN ATO FACIENDO VEL RECIPIENDO

The office of an agent or attorney. … [Read more...] about ATTORNEYSHIP

In feudal law. To at torn; to transfer or turn over; to appoint an attorney or substitute. Attornare rem. To turn over money or goods, u e., to assign or appropriate them to some particular use or service. … [Read more...] about ATTORNARE

In feudal and old English law. A turning over or transfer by a lord of the services of his tenant to the grantee of his seigniory. Attornment is the act of a person who holds a leasehold interest in land, or estate for life or years, by which he agrees to become the tenant of a stranger who has acquired the fee in the land, or the remainder or reversion, or the right to the … [Read more...] about ATTORNMENT

To take or apprehend by commandment of a writ or precept. It differs from arrest, because it takes not only the body, but sometimes the goods, whereas an arrest is only against the person; besides, he who attaches keeps the party attached in. order to produce him in court on the day named, but he who arrests lodges the person arrested in the custody of a higher power, to be … [Read more...] about ATTACH