from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
QUIT CLAIM, conveyancing. By the laws of Connecticut, it is the common
practice there for the owner of land to execute a quit claim deed to a
purchaser who has neither possession nor pretence of claim, and as by the
laws of that state the delivery of the deed amounts to the delivery of
possession, this operates as a conveyance without warranty. It is, however,
essential that the land should not, at the time of the conveyance, be in the
possession of a stranger, holding adversely to the title of the grantor. l
Swift's Dig. 133; 2 N. H. R. 402; 1 Cowen, 613; and vide Release.