Delaware Quitclaim Deed (Corporation Grantor)

A corporation lets go of Delaware real estate through this quitclaim deed: the corporation grantor edition names a business corporation as the party releasing its interest, with an authorized corporate officer signing on the entity's behalf over a single acknowledgment certificate. The grantee receives whatever interest the corporation holds, as the record stands, with no covenant of title attached.

An Officer's Hand, the Corporation's Deed

Under 25 Del. C. § 127, a corporation's deed may be executed and acknowledged, before a judge, a notary public, or two justices of the peace, by the president or other presiding officer, a vice-president, or an assistant vice-president, duly authorized by resolution of the directors, or by the corporation's legally constituted attorney. The form tracks that structure: the grantor entry carries the corporate name and its state of incorporation, the signature block pairs the entity with the signing officer's name and title, and the certified acknowledgment qualifies the deed for the county record (25 Del. C. § 151); no subscribing witnesses attend a Delaware lifetime deed.

Conveyance Power Under the General Corporation Law

The power behind the signature comes from Title 8: a corporation formed under the General Corporation Law may hold real property and may sell, convey, lease, or otherwise dispose of it whether or not its charter mentions land (8 Del. C. § 122(4)), and § 124 keeps a conveyance by or to a corporation from being invalidated for want of corporate capacity outside a short list of proceedings. The corporate seal is a power, not a prerequisite: § 122(3) lets the entity keep one, while 25 Del. C. § 131 gives a signed and acknowledged instrument full effect even where no seal was impressed. And a corporation chartered elsewhere is on equal footing: 25 Del. C. § 305 gives a foreign corporation owning Delaware land the full rights of ownership.

A Release That Leaves Nothing for Successors to Defend

Because 25 Del. C. § 121(b) treats the unrestricted words grant and convey as an implied special warranty binding a grantor and those claiming under it, an entity using the bare statutory words would leave a covenant behind for the corporation, or its successors, to answer. The quitclaim form is drafted against that result: it releases the corporate interest through quitclaim wording, or expressly limits the statutory words so no covenant arises. Patterns presenting the corporate grantor in the record include an entity clearing a residual record interest after an asset sale, a corporation conveying a parcel to an affiliate in a reorganization, and a dissolved corporation disposing of realty during its three-year statutory wind-down (8 Del. C. § 278). An owner signing personally presents a different grantor architecture than the entity configuration this edition carries.

The Tax Paperwork on a Corporate Conveyance

Delaware's realty transfer tax reads a corporate deed like any other document, and the Form 5402 return goes to the recorder whether tax is owed or an exclusion applies; a conveyance without consideration between a parent corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary sits inside the 30 Del. C. § 5401(1) exclusion list. Before recording a deed from a nonresident corporation, the recorder collects the declaration of estimated income tax under 9 Del. C. § 9607(e), the Form 5403 filing on which a resident or exempt entity states its status instead.

Why This Product Ships as County Editions

Recording format law in Delaware belongs to the counties: 9 Del. C. § 9605(g) authorizes each county's recorder of deeds to regulate paper, type size, margins, and blank space, and the three published standards diverge on each point, from first-page reserves to data block placement. A corporate deed formatted for one office can arrive nonconforming at the next, so this product is researched and assembled one county at a time, and the purchase supplies the edition built for the county where the property lies: New Castle County, Kent County, or Sussex County. The statewide acceptance gates travel with every edition, so the county tax assessment parcel identification number appears conspicuously (9 Del. C. § 9605(f)) and the first page names the person who prepared the instrument (9 Del. C. § 9605(h)).

Each county edition of this corporation grantor quitclaim deed, a form also entered in searches as a corporate quit claim deed, arrives as a fillable blank PDF, a worked example completed for a corporate fact pattern in that county, and a plain-language guide to the entries. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.