Crossword clues for quitclaim
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quitclaim \Quit"claim`\ (kw[i^]t"kl[=a]m`), n. [Quit, a. + claim.] (Law) 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.
Quitclaim \Quit"claim`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quitclaimed (kw[i^]t"kl[=a]md`); p. pr. & vb. n. Quitclaiming.] (Law) To release or relinquish a claim to; to release a claim to by deed, without covenants of warranty against adverse and paramount titles.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A renunciation of claims. 2 A deed that is a renunciation of claims to a parcel of real property and a transfer of one's claims to another. vb. (context transitive English) To relinquish, release, or transfer a title, claim, or interest to another.
WordNet
n. document transferring title or right or claim to another [syn: quitclaim deed]
act of transferring a title or right or claim to another
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "quitclaim".
Says he has bought the quitclaim to the place, he is the owner, and that is all he knows.
Never asked how a dying man planned to spend the money that he got from Watson for the quitclaim, nor what become of that quitclaim money after Old Jean died.
The Tuckers aimed to buy the quitclaim from the Atwells as soon as they could save a little money.
You will have to sign a quitclaim deed, though, so as to clear up the title.
If Heppner ever got that signed quitclaim deed in his hands, the transaction would be badly complicated.
Heppner professed to be a government agent sent here to straighten the matter out, and you were to give Borrodaile a hundred dollars for a quitclaim deed to the mine.
She decided to persuade you to give her a quitclaim deed to your share of the farm.
Rand and he assures me that he will provide the company with a quitclaim deed to his part of the farm as soon as possible.
Nothing important, a lawyer wanted a man found because his signature was needed on a quitclaim so a property deal could go through.
He had tried to remove himself entirely from the scene of the ecclesiastical and political struggle for supremacy, but how could he be free from it while men continued to bicker and battle about his quitclaim on the Apostolic See?
I confess, at once, that I cannot demonstrate, either by logic or by mathematics, a modern quitclaim or warranty in holding slaves.
Operating with a friend in the Records Department at City Hall he is forging quitclaim deeds to properties in the burnt-out areas.
Louis, recognizing this fact, had quitclaimed it forever on the marriage of Marguerite to the young king.
It was about a piece of property he had just sold, and he wanted her to sign a quitclaim deed.
The new owner can move, just sign a quitclaim deed and the house becomes the bank's problem.