Quiet

1, adj.

Peaceable, undisturbed, unmolested: as, quiet — enjoyment, possession, qq. V. 3, V. To settle the ownership or vafidity of, by ending disputes or litigation: as, to " quiet a title " to real estate. The ground of bringing a suit to quiet title is, that the disturber, wliile asserting a claim which is a cloud on plaintiff 's title, refuses, to carry it to the test of a trial in court, and because he refuses to do this a court of equity stops his mouth. * The decree operates by way, of estoppel as to all parties and ends all litigation between them. Those only who have a clear, legal and equitable title to land connected with possession have any right to claim the interference of a court of equity to give them peace or dissipate a cloud. 2 The defendant is forbidden, under contempt of court, to assert his title in conflict with complainant's title.s See further Clodd; Peace, 1, Bill of.