Usually means: Acknowledge a new landlord legally.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. attorn: Merriam-Webster
  2. attorn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. attorn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. attorn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. attorn: Vocabulary.com
  6. attorn: Wordnik
  7. attorn: Wiktionary
  8. attorn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. attorn: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. attorn: Dictionary.com
  11. Attorn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. attorn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. attorn: Rhymezone
  14. Attorn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. attorn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. attorn: FreeDictionary.org
  17. attorn: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. attorn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. attorn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. attorn: Merriam-Webster

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. attorn: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. attorn: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. attorn: Legal dictionary
  5. attorn: Financial dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See attorning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (attorn)

verb:  (intransitive, law) To transfer one's obligations from one person to another person.
verb:  (intransitive, law) To consent to the transfer of one's obligations as tenant under a lease to a new landlord.
verb:  (intransitive, law) To acknowledge the jurisdiction of (a particular court) over one's dispute.

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