release deed

release deed
A deed of quitclaim. 23 Am J2d Deeds § 16. Formerly, the term seems to have been applied only to deeds conveying all the right, title and interest of the grantor to a grantee who already had some estate in possession in the land released, but in modern usage it is not one of the essentials of a release deed that the grantee shall already have some right, title or interest in the property released. The term is therefore now synonymous with the term quitclaim deed. Anno: 44 ALR 1269. Blackstone calls such a conveyance a "release" and says that releases may inure either by way of enlarging an estate; as where a life tenant receives a release of all his right from a remainderman, thus giving the life tenant an estate in fee; or releases may be by way of passing an estate; as where one of two coparceners releases all her right to the other, thus passing a fee simple of the whole. See 2 Bl Comm 324.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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