This legal action is "brought to remove a cloud on the title" so that plaintiff and those in privity with them may forever be free of claims against the property.
[1] The action to quiet title resembles other forms of "preventive adjudication," such as the declaratory judgment.
Such an action may also be brought to dispel a restraint on alienation or another party's claim of a nonpossessory interest in land, such as an easement by prescription.
Quiet title actions are always subject to attack and are particularly vulnerable to jurisdictional challenges, both subject matter and personal, even years after final court decree in the action.
A quiet title action is also subject in many geographic jurisdictions, to a Statute of Limitations.