Covington County Quitclaim Deed (Corporation Grantor) Form

Alabama's recording statutes name three corporate offices, and this deed is built around that short list. The Alabama Quitclaim Deed (Corporation Grantor) releases a corporation's interest in Alabama real property to one grantee, with no covenant of title, and its officer section asks which office the signing individual holds, because Ala. Code Section 35-4-67 attaches an evidentiary consequence to a conveyance executed in a corporate name by a president, vice-president, or secretary.

The office beside the signature, and what Alabama makes of it

Section 35-4-67(a) speaks to a deed purporting on its face to be executed in a corporation's name by a person as its president, vice-president, or secretary, and duly attested or acknowledged. Such a deed is prima facie evidence that the conveyance was executed in the corporate name by that person as such officer, that the person held the office, and that the corporation duly authorized it. Subsection (b) makes a conveyance executed that way evidence in Alabama courts, once recorded, without further proof. The form prints the office in Section 8 and again on the printed name line.

Configured for one corporation and one signing officer

Section 1 takes the corporate name as it stands in the corporate record and in the chain of title, with its mailing address and state of incorporation. Section 8 takes the individual who signs, the office held, and the source of authority relied on, such as a dated board resolution or a numbered bylaw provision. Section 10 carries one signature block captioned for the corporation signing by its authorized officer, and one certificate closes the instrument. A corporation releasing a parcel to the person who bought it years earlier, and one clearing its own name from a chain of title where an old instrument left an apparent interest, present the pattern recited here. The configuration does not reach two grantors, a fiduciary signer, or a parcel titled in a subsidiary or a shareholder.

Authority that stays in the minute book

Ala. Code Section 10A-1-2.11 counts the power to sell and convey property among a domestic entity's powers, so the release is the corporation's own act, and Ala. Code Section 10A-2A-8.40 leaves the roster of offices to the certificate of incorporation, the bylaws, or the board. The corporate act itself, a resolution or a written consent, is named in Section 8 and travels no further. A second corporate question also stays off the deed: under Ala. Code Section 10A-2A-12.02, a disposition that would leave the corporation without a significant continuing business activity takes stockholder approval.

No marital status line, no spouse, no seal

Three entries familiar from an individual's deed are absent. The recording gate of Ala. Code Section 35-4-73 reaches an individual grantor or vendor, and the operative section answers it by stating that the grantor is a corporation. The homestead assent rule of Ala. Code Section 6-10-3 addresses a married person, which a corporation is not. And nothing is sealed: Ala. Code Section 35-4-21 provides that a seal is not necessary to convey legal title to land.

Release words, and the trip to the judge of probate

The operative sentence remises, releases, quitclaims, and conveys, omitting grant, bargain, and sell, the words Ala. Code Section 35-4-271 construes as express covenants in a fee conveyance, and it adds that no such covenant arises. The closing certificate follows the corporate wording of Ala. Code Section 35-4-29: the notary certifies that the person whose name as an officer is signed to the conveyance executed it as such officer and with full authority, for and as the act of the corporation. Recording follows in the county holding the land, an unrecorded conveyance being inoperative against a purchaser, mortgagee, or judgment creditor without notice (Ala. Code Section 35-4-90). The probate judge collects the deed tax of fifty cents for each five hundred dollars of value with the sales value information Alabama gathers on Form RT-1 (Ala. Code Section 40-22-1). Page one keeps its top three inches free for the stamp, and the preparer endorsement Alabama makes a recording prerequisite (Sections 35-4-110 and 35-4-113) sits inside the deed.

Searches also run to quit claim deed, quick claim deed, and corporate deed. The package holds the blank fillable PDF, a completed example built on a Calhoun County release, and a guide covering every entry, the officer and authority section, and the certificate. Nothing here is legal advice; how these rules land on one corporation and one chain of title is a question for an Alabama attorney.