QUIETUS

quietus (kwI-ee-t<<schwa>>s), adj.[Law Latin] Quit; acquitted; discharged, esp. from a debt

or obligation, or from serving as an executor. • In England, this term was formerly used by the

Clerk of the Pipe, in a discharge given to an accountant, usu. concluding with abinde recessit

quietus (“hath gone quit thereof”), called quietus est. 2.Hist. The removal of a judge from the

bench. [Blacks Law 8^th]