Quietus
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
I. I.
In American law
The discharge of an executor or administrator.
In English law
An acquittance or discharge; a word used by the clerk of the pipe and auditors in the exchequer in their acquittances to accountants.
In old English law
The dismissal or removal of a judge from the bench.