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QUIET (VERB)

To pacify; to render secure or unassailable by the removal of disquieting causes or disputes. This is the meaning of the word in the phrase “action to quiet title,” which is a proceeding to establish the plaintiff’s title to land by bringing into court an’ adverse claimant and there compelling
to either to establish his claim or be forever after estopped from asserting it See Wright v. Mattison, 18 How. 56, 15 L. Ed. 280.

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