attornment
C2CEFR level
98/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A tenant's formal acknowledgment of a new landlord following a transfer of the reversion.
The lender required the tenant's attornment so that rent would be paid directly to it after the sale.
Business noun
A tenant's formal acknowledgment of a new landlord following a transfer of the property.
Completion of the investment sale triggered the tenants' attornment to the incoming owner.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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