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.

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.