Also 5 -clayme, 7 -claime. [a. AF. quiteclame (Godef.), sb. f. quiteclamer: see next.] † a. A formal discharge or release. Obs. b. A formal renunciation or giving up of a claim.
1450. Rolls Parlt., V. 199/1. Letters Patentes of relesse, quit-clayme and discharge. Ibid. (1473), VI. 95/2. Any … Relesse, Discharge or Quyte clayme.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. vii. § 19. 517. [He] gaue vnto him for the quit-claime of his sisters Ioyncture, twenty thousand ounces of gold.
1658. Phillips, Quite claim, in Common Law, is an acquitting of a man for any action that he hath against him.
1865. Nichols, Britton, II. 151. The person to whom the quitclaim was made was not … in seisin of the tenement.
1891. B. Harte, First Fam. Tasajara, i. There’s the papers—the quit-claim—all drawn up and Signed.
attrib. 1893. Gunter, Miss Dividends, 182. A quit-claim deed … of the Mineral Hill locations.
