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ATTORNMENT [2 records]

Record 1 2015-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Legal Actions
DEF

The transference of his homage and service by a tenant to a new feudal lord;... (Oxford)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Actions en justice
OBS

attournement : qualifiant ce terme d'historique, le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO) n'a pas tenu à le normaliser.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Security
CONT

Attornment has two analogous senses, the first relating to personal property and the second relating to land. It may mean either (1) an act by a bailee in possession of goods on behalf of one person acknowledging that he will hold the goods on behalf of someone else; or (2) a person's agreement to hold land as tenant of someone else. (Garner, 1987, p. 75). 1

CONT

In recent times the term [attornment] has been loosely used to refer to the demand of a new owner for rents made on the tenant, which demand is generally accompanied by a direction from the previous owner to the tenant requiring him to pay all future rents to the new owner. (The Canadian Law Dictionary, p. 41)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des sûretés
OBS

attournement : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l’accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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