District Of Columbia Quitclaim Deed (Corporation Grantor)

The deed of a District of Columbia corporation takes two officer signatures, and only one of them belongs to the grantor. This quitclaim deed is built on that split: a single corporation releases whatever interest it holds in Washington real estate, without warranty, its president or a vice-president executes the instrument, and its secretary or assistant secretary attests that execution on a second line.

A rule from the 1901 code that still shapes the signature page

D.C. Code section 42-602 puts it in one sentence: the deed of a corporation is executed and acknowledged either by an attorney in fact appointed for that purpose or, without appointment, by its president or a vice-president if also attested by the secretary or assistant secretary. This form is drawn for the second branch, the one that needs no recorded appointment. Section 2 names both officers with the offices they hold and states the corporate authority the conveyance rests on, whether a board resolution, a bylaw provision, or a shareholder agreement, since section 29-306.01(b) of the Business Organizations Code places corporate powers under the authority of the board of directors. The resolution stays in the corporate minute book, prepared apart from this package and not included in it.

Two signatures, one seal, one certificate

Only the first line is a grantor's line, and the page shows the difference. Section 42-306(b) provides that no estate in District real property is created except by a deed signed and sealed by the grantor, so the executing officer's signature rule closes with the bracketed notation every statutory form in section 42-601 prints, and the operative text adopts it as the seal of the corporation. The attesting officer's rule prints an attesting signature label and no notation. A metal seal is a further thing again: section 29-303.02(2) numbers the power to have a corporate seal among a corporation's general powers, and the printed notation does not wait on one. A single acknowledgment certificate follows the one grantor signature, because section 42-602 gives the acknowledgment to the officer who executes, and its name blank takes the representative wording of section 1-1231.15: the individual, the office held, and the corporation.

Corporate releases of this shape run through the land records constantly: a single purpose corporation selling the building it was formed to hold, a corporation clearing an old interest out of its name after a reorganization, a nonprofit corporation releasing a parcel it no longer uses. The configuration recites one corporation and two officers; an appointed attorney in fact under the first branch of section 42-602, a natural person holding record title, and a member-managed company each present a different signature page.

What a corporate quit claim deed carries across

Title covenants exist in a District deed only where express statutory words put them there: sections 42-604 through 42-608 give shorthand effect to phrases such as warrant generally and with special warranty, and this instrument carries not one of them. Section 42-702 nevertheless moves the corporation's whole present estate, so the grantee holds exactly what the corporation held at delivery, along with every deed of trust, easement, and restriction already recorded against the property. Section 8 accepts an informational listing of those matters above a printed sentence stating that the listing warrants nothing.

The deed tax, and the corporate version that needs no deed

Recordation tax and transfer tax are figured together on Form FP-7/C, the combined return every party signs under oath, and where a corporate deed passes for a nominal sum the two taxes attach to fair market value rather than to a price. Section 47-902(8) exempts a confirmatory, corrective, or supplemental deed made without additional consideration, the posture of many corporate releases. Beside all of that sits a rule with no paper deed in it, section 42-1102.02, under which a transfer of a controlling economic interest in an entity holding District real property is taxed the way a conveyance is taxed. Recording is a single stop for the whole District, the Recorder of Deeds inside the Office of Tax and Revenue, where property answers to its square, suffix, and lot and the deed is due on file within 30 days of signing.

The package delivers this configuration as a fillable PDF, a completed example carried through a Fairlawn parcel released by a Delaware corporation, and a plain-language guide that walks the ten numbered sections, both officer signatures, the seal and the certificate, Form FP-7/C, and recording. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.