Delaware Warranty Deed (Two Grantors)

Two record owners conveying Delaware real estate together present the record this deed is configured for: a grantor section reciting both names, a separate signature line for each owner, and an acknowledgment certificate for each signature. The Delaware Warranty Deed (Two Grantors) is the general warranty form arranged for exactly two grantors who convey the whole fee to the grantee side in a single instrument.

Two grantors, two signatures, two certificates

The form recites exactly two grantors. Each grantor signs on a dedicated line, and the notary section carries a certificate for each signature, so the two owners may acknowledge on different dates, before different officers, or in different states without re-executing the deed. Delaware admits a deed to record once it is acknowledged and the acknowledgment is certified (25 Del. C. Section 151), and the certificates follow the statutory short forms of 29 Del. C. Section 4329. This configuration is the one customers also search as a joint grantors warranty deed, and a record with a different owner count reads differently: a third co-owner has no grantor line here, and a sole owner presents a one-grantor pattern.

How two owners come to hold Delaware title

Three Delaware co-ownership forms produce the two-grantor record. A deed naming two grantees married to each other vests by the entireties under the state's common law presumption, without any vesting words; each spouse then holds the whole estate, and a conveyance out of that title carries both signatures because neither spouse holds a separable share that moves on one signature. Joint tenants with right of survivorship hold under the express declaration 25 Del. C. Section 701 demands, and when both convey together the deed passes the entire title and closes out the survivorship along with it. Unmarried co-owners who took with no survivorship words hold as tenants in common, two undivided interests that travel in one instrument when both owners sign as grantors. Whatever vesting the record shows, the mechanics here stay constant: two grantors, one conveyance, one operative clause.

A general warranty both grantors join

Delaware folds its default warranty into the operative words themselves: under 25 Del. C. Section 121(b), "grant and convey" implies a special warranty unless the deed enlarges or restricts it, so the general warranty in this form is stated expressly. Both grantors join the covenant to warrant and defend against all persons whomsoever, the enlarged promise that reaches the whole chain of title instead of stopping where the grantors' own ownership began. Delaware practice leans toward that narrower default, so the express covenant appearing in the deed itself is what marks the general warranty variant.

One deed, three county rulebooks

Delaware writes no statewide format rule for recorded documents. 9 Del. C. Section 9605(g) hands layout to the recorder of each county, and the three counties publish three different standards: New Castle County reserves blank space across the top of page one and groups its data block at the upper right, Kent County fixes a first-page top band with the parcel and preparer data stacked at the upper left on 8.5 x 11 inch paper, and Sussex County looks for a 2 inch top margin, 12 point type, and single-sided printing. A layout drawn for one county lands nonconforming in another, so this product is organized by recording county: the purchase delivers the county-matched version of the two-grantor form, drawn to the published standards of the buyer's recording county.

What rides to the recorder with the deed

Two statewide acceptance gates travel with every version: the tax parcel number set conspicuously on the instrument (9 Del. C. Section 9605(f)) and the first-page preparer line (9 Del. C. Section 9605(h)). The realty transfer tax of 30 Del. C. Chapter 54 applies at settlement, 3 percent to the State and 4 percent combined where the full local tax is enacted, divided evenly between the grantor side and the grantee side, with the transfer tax return and value affidavit filed at recording whether tax is due or the transfer is exempt. The county guide included with each version walks through that paperwork together with the county's own intake forms and fees.

Each county version of the two-grantor package contains the fillable deed form drawn to that county's standards, a completed example showing both grantor entries, both signature lines, and both certificates filled in, and a guide covering completion and recording in that county. The materials describe Delaware law and what this form contains; they are not legal advice.