Quitclaim Definition

kwĭtklām
quitclaims
noun
quitclaims
The release or relinquishment of a claim, action, right, or title.
Webster's New World
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.
Webster's New World

A formal renouncement of one’s right to or interest in something. See also deed.

Webster's New World Law

A renunciation of claims.

Wiktionary
verb
quitclaims
To transfer (one's interest in property) without warranty as to the extent of ownership on the part of the seller.
American Heritage
To give up a claim or title to, esp. by a quitclaim deed.
Webster's New World
adjective
Of or relating to such a title, deed, or transfer without warranty.
American Heritage

Origin of Quitclaim

  • Middle English quitclaime from Anglo-Norman quiteclame from quiteclamer to release quite free quite clamer to proclaim (from Latin clāmāre claim)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • quit +"Ž claim

    From Wiktionary

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