ATTENDANT, in law, signifies one that owes duty or service to another, or depends upon him. Thus if there be lord, mesne, and tenant; and the tenant hold of the mesne by a penny; and the mesne hold over by two pence: If the mesne releases to the tenant all his right in the land, and the tenant die, his wife shall be endowed of the land, and shall be attendant to the heir, of the third part of the penny, not of the third part of the two pence; she being to be endowed of the best possession of her husband.—Where the wife is endowed by the guardian, she shall be attendant to the guardian, and to the heir at his full age. See WIFE and WOMAN.
