different between quitclaim vs remise

English

Etymology

From Middle English quiteclaymen, from Anglo-Norman quiteclamer, from clamer quite (“to claim quit”). Compare claim quit.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kw?tkle?m/

Verb

quitclaim (third-person singular simple present quitclaims, present participle quitclaiming, simple past and past participle quitclaimed)

1. (transitive) To relinquish or release (a claim, title etc.); to transfer (an interest in property). [from 14th c.]
   • 1991, JD Gordon, "How Not to Succeed in Law School", Yale Law Journal, April

     I hereby give, grant, bargain, sell, release, convey, transfer, and quitclaim all my right, title, interest, benefit, and use whatever in, of, and concerning this chattel, otherwise known as an orange, or citrus orantium, together with all the appurtenances thereto of skin, pulp, pip, rind, seeds, and juice for his own use and behoof, to himself and his heirs in fee simple forever, free from all liens, encumbrances, easements, limitations, restraints, or conditions whatsoever, any and all prior deeds, transfers or other documents whatsoever.

   • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 86:

     It introduced a bill into the legislature that allowed the king to quitclaim all of Ruth's lands in return for Spreckels gaining title to 24,000 crucial acres at Wailuku, near Spreckelsville.

Noun

quitclaim (plural quitclaims)

1. A renunciation of claims.
2. A deed that is a renunciation of claims to a parcel of real property and a transfer of one's claims to another.

Translations

See also

• quitclaim on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???m??z/

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman remis, Middle French remis, past participle of remettre (“to remit”); Middle French remise (noun), from feminine past participle of remettre (“to remit”).

Verb

remise (third-person singular simple present remises, present participle remising, simple past and past participle remised)

1. (transitive) To send or give back.
2. To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed, to quitclaim.

Noun

remise (plural remises)

1. (obsolete, law) A return or surrender of a claim, property etc. [15th–19th c.]

Etymology 2

From French remise.

Noun

remise (plural remises)

1. (now historical) A house for covered carriages; a chaise house. [from 17th c.]

   • long before we had got to the door of the remise, Fancy had finished the whole head

   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:

2. (obsolete) A hired livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary fiacre; so called because kept in a remise. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol II, ch. 44:

     [H]e actually departed from Paris with two or three gentlemen of his acquaintance, who had hired a Remise for a jaunt to Versailles; and having accompanied them as far as the village of Passé, returned in the dusk of the evening on foot.

3. (fencing) A renewal of a failed action, without withdrawing the arm. [from 19th c.]
4. (music) The repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition.

See also

• remiss

Anagrams

• Meiers, Meiser, Siemer, misère

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r?m?s?]

Noun

remise f

1. (medicine) remission

See also

• relaps

Related terms

• See mise

Further reading

• remise in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• remise in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

remise f (plural remises, diminutive remisetje n)

1. carriage house
2. tram house
3. (chess) a tie, draw

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.miz/

Etymology 1

From the verb remettre. Compare mise.

Verb

remise f

1. feminine singular of the past participle of remettre

Noun

remise f (plural remises)

1. delivery, handing over; handover
2. remission; reduction
3. discount, reduction
4. shed, carriage house
5. deferment, postponement

Etymology 2

From the verb remiser.

Verb

remise

1. first-person singular present indicative of remiser
2. third-person singular present indicative of remiser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of remiser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of remiser
5. second-person singular imperative of remiser

Anagrams

• merise, misère

Further reading

• “remise” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Noun

remise m (plural remises)

1. (Argentina) taxi, taxicab