VERB | cognition | attorn | acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord |
---|
Meaning | Acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord. | |
---|---|---|
Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
Example | "he was attorned by the tenants" | |
Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
Broader | admit, acknowledge | declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of |
©2001-24 · HyperDic hyper-dictionary · Contact