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▪ I. quitclaim, n.|ˈkwɪtkleɪm|
Also 5 -clayme, 7 -claime.
[a. AF. quiteclame (Godef.), n. f. quiteclamer: see next.]
†a. A formal discharge or release. Obs.
b. A formal renunciation or giving up of a claim.
1450Rolls Parlt. V. 199/1 Letters Patentes of relesse, quit-clayme and discharge. 1473Ibid. VI. 95/2 Any..Relesse, Discharge or Quyte clayme. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. vii. §19. 517 [He] gaue vnto him for the quit-claime of his sisters Ioyncture, twenty thousand ounces of gold. 1658Phillips, Quite claim, in Common Law, is an acquitting of a man for any action that he hath against him. 1865Nichols Britton II. 151 The person to whom the quitclaim was made was not..in seisin of the tenement. 1891B. Harte First Fam. Tasajara i, There's the papers—the quit⁓claim—all drawn up and Signed.
attrib.1893Gunter Miss Dividends 182 A quit-claim deed..of the Mineral Hill locations.
▪ II. quitclaim, v.|ˈkwɪtkleɪm|
Forms: see quit a. and claim v. Also 5 quik-, quicke-.
[a. AF. and OF. quiteclamer, -claimer, f. quite quit, clear, free, etc. + clamer to proclaim, declare (see claim v. 6). In later use associated with quit v. and claim n. (see 2 b).]
†1. To declare (a person) free; to release, acquit, discharge, etc. Obs.
c1314Guy Warw. (A.) 6654 Þai ben out of prisoun y-gon Oþer quite-cleymed ichon. c1450Merlin 19 Quod Merlyn, ‘Thow haste quyte claymed [printed clayned] my moder...’ Quod the Iuge, ‘It is soth’. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 167 He suld be content thai quite clamand him in tyme tocum. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. ii. 14 Neither will I Him charge with guilt, but rather doe quite clame. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 23 b, Everie frie man, haueand natiue bond-men, may quiteclame and make them frie.
2. To renounce, resign, give up (a possession, claim, right, pursuit, etc.).
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 293, I quit clayme hit for euer, kepe hit as his auen. c1400Sege Jerus. (E.E.T.S.) 28/504 Þat querel y quik cleyme. 1480Bury Wills (Camden) 66 To reles and quyteclayme all their right, title, and interest in the seid maner. 1508Dunbar Flyting 62 Quytclame clergie, and cleik to the ane club. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 741 For ay mirth clenlie I quitclame. 1639Drummond of Hawthornden Mem. State Wks. (1711) 130 Whether a subject may..give over and quit-claim all right and title [etc.]. 1760T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. (1765) I. 89 Having sold or quit⁓claimed..a tract for a plantation. 1809Bawdwen Domesday Bk. 2 The land..which Hugo the Sheriff quitclaimed to Walcherus. 1885W. Ross Aberdour & Inchcolme ii. 39 He quitclaims the land of Leyis to the Monastery.
b. With quit taken as verb. Const. to.
a1706Howe in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xii. 4 We must quit claim to ourselves and look on God as our owner. 1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 108, I, A.B...having remissed, released, and for ever quit claim to C.D...of all..debts. 1886Fox Bourne Eng. Merchants I. 66 Having..remitted and quitted claim to the king for all..debts.
Hence ˈquitclaiming vbl. n.
1472–3Rolls Parlt. VI. 45/1 For that knowelache, remisyng, quiteclaymyng..the seid William..graunted..the seid maners. |