verb
- agreeing to recognize a new landlord or owner and to pay rent or acknowledge obligation to that person instead of the previous one
Usage: legal/property law term; present participle of 'attorn'
Examples
- The tenant is attorning to the new property owner after the sale was completed.
- By attorning, the tenant formally acknowledged the change in landlord.
- The lease required the tenant to consider attorning if the property changed hands.
- After attorning to the new owner, the tenant began paying rent to the different address.