Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier
  CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA

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....

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

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