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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A disavowal; a renunciation; as, for example, the act by which a patentee renounces part of his title of invention. Of Estates. The act by which a party refuses to accept an estate which has been conveyed to him. Thus, a trustee is said to disclaim who releases to his fellow trustees
Of Tenancy
The act of a person in possession, who denies holding the estate of the person who claims to be the owner.
2 Nev. & M. 672.
An affirmation, by pleading or otherwise, in a court of record, that the reversion is in a stranger. It works a forfeiture of the lease at common law (Co. Litt. 251; 1 Cruise, Dig. 109), but not, it is said, in the United States (1 Washb. Real Prop. 93). Equity, it is said, will not aid a tenant in denying his landlord's title.
1 Pet. (U. S.) 486.
In Pleading. A renunciation by the defendant of all claim to the subject of the demand made by the plaintiff's bill. Cooper, Eq. PI.
309; Mitf. Eq. PL (Jeremy Ed.) 318.