quitclaim

(kwit′klām′)

noun

the release or relinquishment of a claim, action, right, or title
a deed or other legal paper in which a person relinquishes to another a claim or title to some property or right without guaranteeing or warranting such title
in full quitclaim deed

Origin: ME quitclayme < Anglo-Fr quiteclame < the v.

transitive verb

to give up a claim or title to, esp. by a quitclaim deed

Origin: ME quite clamen < Anglo-Fr & OFr quiteclamer: see quit & claim

See quitclaim in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

The transfer of a title, right, or claim to another.

transitive verb quit·claimed, quit·claim·ing, quit·claims

To renounce all claim to (a possession or right).

Origin:

Origin: Middle English quitclaime

Origin: , from Anglo-Norman quiteclame

Origin: , from quiteclamer, to release

Origin: : quite, free; see quite

Origin: + clamer, to proclaim (from Latin clāmāre; see claim)

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