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quitclaim definition

quit·claim (kwit′klām′)

noun

  1. the release or relinquishment of a claim, action, right, or title
  2. 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

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

transitive verb

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

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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