Lexic.us

Definition of Quitclaim

1. Noun. Document transferring title or right or claim to another.

2. Noun. Act of transferring a title or right or claim to another.

Definition of Quitclaim

1. n. A release or relinquishment of a claim; a deed of release; an instrument by which some right, title, interest, or claim, which one person has, or is supposed to have, in or to an estate held by himself or another, is released or relinquished, the grantor generally covenanting only against persons who claim under himself.

2. v. t. To release or relinquish a claim to; to release a claim to by deed, without covenants of warranty against adverse and paramount titles.

Definition of Quitclaim

1. Verb. (transitive) To relinquish, release, or transfer a title, claim, or interest to another. ¹

2. Noun. A renunciation of claims. ¹

3. Noun. A deed that is a renunciation of claims to a parcel of real property and a transfer of one's claims to another; a quitclaim deed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Quitclaim

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quitclaim

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Literary usage of Quitclaim

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"title, however, will not pass by quitclaim deed, but will inure to the ... A quitclaim deed of all the grantor's right, title, and interest in the land, ..."

2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"quitclaim DEED See Good and Sufficient quitclaim Deed. A "quitclaim deed" is defined as "a deed in the nature of a release, containing words of release and ..."

3. Year Books of Edward II by Great Britain, Frederic William Maitland, Selden Society, William Craddock Bolland, G J Turner, Sir Paul Vinogradoff, Ludwik Ehrlich (1903)
"We have nothing to do with any quitclaim that you put forward ; but we tell ... And we pray judgment whether [you can bar us by the quitclaim] unless you ..."

4. A Treatise on the American Law of Vendor and Purchaser of Real Property by George William Warvelle (1902)
"The idea underlying the proposition seems to be that, when his grantor is willing to give him only a quitclaim deed, he impliedly notifies him that there ..."

5. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1903)
"We have nothing to do with any quitclaim that you put forward; ... And we pray judgment whether [you can bar us by the quitclaim] unless you show us where ..."

6. Handbook on American Mining Law by George Purcell Costigan (1908)
"The question is whether a quitclaim deed or a warranty should be used in conveying a mining claim. In the case, of a patented claim a warranty deed may be ..."

7. A Treatise on the Modern Law of Real Property and Other Interests in Land by Herbert Thorndike Tiffany (1903)
"Contra in Massachusetts. Trafton v. Hawes, 102 Mass. 533, 3 Am. Rep. 494. See ante, § 134. T« See, as to the early use of the word "quitclaim," 2 Pollock ft ..."

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