Latin, meaning What appears to the Court needs not the help of witnesses. … [Read more...]

The release of a claim or of title to property.(verb) - In conveyancing. To release or relinquish a claim; to execute a deed of quitclaim.(noun) - A release or acquittance given to one man by another, in respect of any action that he has or might have against him. Also acquitting or giving up one's claim or title. Termes de la Ley; Cowell. Quitclaim deed. A deed of conveyance … [Read more...]

In pleading. For that whereas. A form of introducing matter of inducement in certain actions, as assumpsit and case. Quod datum est ecolesisB, datum est Deo. 2 Inst 2. What is given to the church is given to God. Quod demonstrandi oausa additur rei satis, demonstrate, frustra nt. 10 Coke, 113. What is added to a thing sufficiently palpable, for the purpose of demonstration, is … [Read more...]

A real estate term referring to a property deed transferring whatever ownership interest the transferor has in a particular property; whatever that may be and without any guarantees. … [Read more...]

In English law. The name of a writ given by St Westm. 2, 13 Edw. I. c. 4, to the owners of a particular estate, as for life, in dower, by the curtesy, or in fee-tail, who were barred of the right of possession by a recovery had against them through their default or nonappearance in a possessory action, by which the right was restored to him who had been thus unwarily deforced … [Read more...]