quit claim

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quit claim - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  QUIT CLAIM, conveyancing. By the laws of Connecticut, it is the common 
  practice there for the owner of land to execute a quit claim deed to a 
  purchaser who has neither possession nor pretence of claim, and as by the 
  laws of that state the delivery of the deed amounts to the delivery of 
  possession, this operates as a conveyance without warranty. It is, however, 
  essential that the land should not, at the time of the conveyance, be in the 
  possession of a stranger, holding adversely to the title of the grantor. l 
  Swift's Dig. 133; 2 N. H. R. 402; 1 Cowen, 613; and vide Release. 
  
  

  QUIT CLAIM, contracts. A release or acquittal of a man from all claims which 
  the releasor has against him.