quitclaim Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun document transferring title or right or claim to another
    quitclaim deed.
  2. noun act of transferring a title or right or claim to another

WordNet

Quit"claim` noun
Etymology
Quit, a. + claim.
Definitions
  1. (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.
Quit"claim` transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Quitclaimed ; present participle & verbal noun Quitclaiming
Definitions
  1. (Law) To release or relinquish a claim to; to release a claim to by deed, without covenants of warranty against adverse and paramount titles.

Webster 1913