Quiet

adj. Unmolested; tranqull; free from interference or disturbance.

— Quiet enjoyment. A covenant, usually inserted in leases and conveyances on the part of the grantor, promising that the tenant or grantee shall enjoy the possession of the premises in peace and without disturbance, is called a covenant "fur quiet enjoyment."

v. To paclfy; to render secure or unassailable by the removal of disquieting causes or disputes. This is the meaning of the word in the phrase-"action to quiet title," which is a proceeding to establish the plaintiff's title to land by bringing into court an adverse claimant and there compelling him either to establish his claim or be forever after estopped from asserting it See Wright v. Mattison, 18 How. 56, 15 L. Ed. 280.