Section 89-7-19 - Attornment of tenant to stranger void; exception

The attornment of a tenant to a stranger shall be void unless it be with the consent of the landlord of such tenant, or pursuant to or in consequence of the judgment of a court of law or the decree of a court of equity.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 42, art. 1 (31); 1857, ch. 36, art. 6; 1871, § 2289; 1880, § 1192; 1892, § 2500; 1906, § 2837; Hemingway's 1917, § 2335; 1930, § 2184; 1942, § 906.