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Catalog · No. S03 of 9

Layout specimen. This title is not on the publishing record, has no ISBN, and is not offered for rights or sale.

No. S03

What the Deed Left Out

John Q. Public

Plate

Layout sample

What the Deed Left Out

John Q. Public

The deed described the land. It did not describe the agreement.

Stories · Stories · Civic fiction

Not on the record · layout specimen

The book

A clerk files a correction no one requested. A brother signs a quitclaim to end a fight and starts another. A woman reads her grandmother’s name on a mineral lease signed the year the grandmother stopped speaking to the family.

quitclaim (n.)

A deed that gives whatever interest the signer has, and promises nothing about what that interest is.