Quitclaim synonyms
kwĭt'klām'
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The act of a person or branch of government renouncing or abandoning an office, trust, sovereignty, privileges, or duties to which he or she is entitled, holds, or possesses by law.
The act of abandoning a person with the intent of terminating the duties or him or her. For example, the intentional failure by a parent to communicate with or to provide financial or other support to his children. See also desertion.
Relinquishment of an office or function.
The act of relinquishing something.
Abandonment of a right, whether open or tacit, without transferring it to someone else; in criminal law, the total voluntary abandonment of a criminal activity before it is committed with the purpose of foiling that activity.
An oral or written statement that one is resigning a position or office:
An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
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A voluntary relinquishing of a right or privilege. Although a waiver may result from an explicit surrender or by circumstances, courts frown on accepting waivers of constitutional rights. The party waiving a right must have knowledge of that right and the informed intention of surrendering it.
To give up by leaving or ceasing to operate or inhabit, especially as a result of danger or other impending threat:
To give up formally (a high office, throne, authority, etc.)
To surrender possession of, especially by treaty.
Demit is defined as to quit or fire.
To decide or declare that one will not or will no longer use or be associated with (something):
(Idiomatic) To relinquish control or possession of something to someone.
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To give up or abandon (control of something or a claim, for example).
To give or pay (something due or owed)
To give up, relinquish, or reject something.
To give up (a position, for example), especially by formal notification.
To give up (a claim or right, for example) voluntarily; relinquish.
To give way to pressure or force:
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quitclaim deed
An instrument which transfers all of the right, title and interest that the conveyor has in a piece of property, but with no warranty or assurances that the conveyor has good and legal title; risk of liens or encumbrances pass to the transferee.
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