2. (Modern Law) To agree to become tenant to one to whom reversion has been granted.
Attorney
(At*tor"ney) n.; pl. Attorneys [OE. aturneye, OF. atorné, p. p. of atorner: cf. LL. atturnatus,
attornatus, fr. attornare. See Attorn.]
1. A substitute; a proxy; an agent. [Obs.]
And will have no attorney but myself.
Shak.
2. (Law) (a) One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in
fact. (b) A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at
law.
An attorney is either public or private. A private attorney, or an attorney in fact, is a person appointed
by another, by a letter or power of attorney, to transact any business for him out of court; but in a more
extended sense, this class includes any agent employed in any business, or to do any act in pais, for
another. A public attorney, or attorney at law, is a practitioner in a court of law, legally qualified to prosecute
and defend actions in such court, on the retainer of clients. Bouvier. - - The attorney at law answers
to the procurator of the civilians, to the solicitor in chancery, and to the proctor in the ecclesiastical
and admiralty courts, and all of these are comprehended under the more general term lawyer. In Great
Britain and in some states of the United States, attorneys are distinguished from counselors in that the
business of the former is to carry on the practical and formal parts of the suit. In many states of the
United States however, no such distinction exists. In England, since 1873, attorneys at law are by statute
called solicitors.
A power, letter, or warrant, of attorney, a written authority from one person empowering another to
transact business for him.
Attorney
(At*tor"ney) v. t. To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy. [Obs.] Shak.
Attorney-general
(At*tor"ney-gen"er*al) n.; (pl. Attorney-generals or Attorneys-general). (Law) The
chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law- executing power is a
party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. Wharton.
Attorneyism
(At*tor"ney*ism) n. The practice or peculiar cleverness of attorneys.
Attorneyship
(At*tor"ney*ship), n. The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another. Shak.
Attornment
(At*torn"ment) n. [OF. attornement, LL. attornamentum. See Attorn.] (Law) The act of
a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new
lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge
the purchaser of the estate as his landlord. Burrill. Blackstone.
Attract
(At*tract") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Attracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Attracting.] [L. attractus, p. p. of
attrahere; ad + trahere to draw. See Trace, v. t.]
1. To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist
divulsion, separation, or decomposition.
All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another.
Derham.
2. To draw by influence of a moral or emotional kind; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to
invite or allure; as, to attract admirers.
Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.
Milton.
