{"id":9707,"date":"2017-11-27T01:59:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T01:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=9707"},"modified":"2018-06-30T21:34:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T21:34:44","slug":"action-to-quiet-title-to-establish-a-plaintiffs-title-to-land-by-compelling-the-adverse-claimant-to-establish-a-claim-or-be-forever-estopped-from-asserting-it","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=9707","title":{"rendered":"action to quiet title – to establish a plaintiff\u2019s title to land by compelling the adverse claimant to establish a claim or be forever estopped from asserting it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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action to quiet title<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\n(1837)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1. A proceeding to establish a plaintiff\u2019s title to land by compelling the adverse claimant<\/a> to establish a claim or be forever estopped<\/a> from asserting it.<\/strong> \u2014 aka<\/span> quiet-title action<\/strong><\/em><\/span>. [1]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

quieting title<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Bringing an action to quiet title, i.e., a lawsuit brought to remove a cloud on the title<\/a> so that the plaintiff and those in privity with her may forever be free of claims against the property.<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. An action or suit in court <\/b><\/span>designed<\/b><\/span><\/span>\u00a0to effect a removal of a cloud or cloud on title<\/a> to real property, known in older times as a bill qui timet.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Sharon v Tucker,\u00a0<\/em>144 US 533, 36 L Ed 532 , 12 S Ct 720<\/span>.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A remedy, originating in<\/span> equity<\/a>, enlarged and supplemented in many jurisdictions by statute, and having for its purpose an adjudication that a claim having for its purpose an adjudication that a claim of title to or an interest in property, adverse to that of the plaintiff, is invalid, so that the plaintiff and those claiming under him may be forever afterward free from any danger of the hostile claim.\u00a0<\/span> 44 Am J1st Quiet T\u00a0\u00a7 1<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong>[3]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black’s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Deluxe Tenth Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]:\u00a0\u00a0Ballantine’s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span>Legal Assistant Edition<\/span><\/a><\/em>
\nby Jack Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Doctored<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]:\u00a0Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0with Pronunciations
\n<\/em>Third Edition<\/a>\u00a0by James A. Ballantine\u00a0(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Edited by William S. Anderson.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 1969 by THE LAWYER\u2019S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.\u00a0 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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