District Of Columbia Quitclaim Deed (Partnership or Limited Partnership Grantor)

A partnership that owns District of Columbia real estate owns it alone. D.C. Code section 29-605.01 is blunt: a partner is not a co-owner of partnership property and holds no interest in it that can be transferred. The deed releasing such a parcel is the partnership's own deed, signed by a partner acting for the entity. This District of Columbia quitclaim deed is built on that arrangement: one partnership as grantor, one partner signing in the partnership name, and a section of the form devoted to that partner's title and authority.

Where a partner's signature gets its power

Section 29-603.02(a)(1) grants the permission in one clause: partnership property held in the name of the partnership may be transferred by an instrument of transfer executed by a partner in the partnership name, subject to the effect of a statement of partnership authority. Section 2 of the form exists for that last qualification. A statement of partnership authority filed under section 29-603.03 names the partners authorized to execute an instrument transferring real property held in the partnership name, and a certified copy recorded in the District land records carries weight: a recorded grant of authority operates in favor of a person giving value without knowledge to the contrary, and a recorded limitation is imputed to everyone outside the partnership. For a limited partnership the agency belongs to general partners under section 29-704.02, whose text reaches the signing of a record in the partnership's name.

The entity rule that stops short of a partnership

Section 42-602 sends a corporation's deed through an executing officer plus an attesting officer, and by its own words that provision speaks to corporations; a partnership's power to sign comes from Title 29. Hence this signature page: one sealed signature line, one acknowledgment certificate, no attesting line. The form recites one partnership and one signing partner, and Section 1 records whether the grantor is a general, limited liability, or limited partnership. Partnership parcels move through the land records in patterns of their own, among them a family partnership releasing its last District property before winding up, and a limited partnership quitclaiming a strip along a public alley to a neighbor.

Released, never warranted

A quit claim deed in the District works by leaving words out. Sections 42-604 through 42-608 attach title covenants only to their own express phrases, so a deed printing none of them promises nothing about title, as Section 9 says outright. Section 42-702 still moves the partnership's whole present estate, so the grantee takes what the partnership held at delivery, subject to every recorded deed of trust, easement, and restriction.

One sealed signature for the partnership

Under section 42-306(b), an estate in District real property comes into being only through a deed its grantor has signed and sealed, which puts the seal inside the conveyance. The signature line therefore ends in the bracketed notation the statutory deed forms of section 42-601 print, and Section 9 adopts that notation as the seal of the partnership. No District provision located prescribes a form of seal for a partnership grantor, so a partnership that keeps one may impress it beside the printed notation. The certificate that follows takes a notarial act performed in the District, in another state, or by communication technology.

The deed taxes, and a partnership rule with no deed in it

Recordation tax and transfer tax each take 1.1 percent of consideration below $400,000 and 1.45 percent at or above that line, and fair market value where a deed passes for a nominal sum. The District's no-consideration exemptions are relationship exemptions between individuals, so a conveyance between a partnership and its own partners answers to value. Both are computed on Form FP-7/C, the combined return the parties sign under oath, which section 42-1103(c) backs with joint and several liability for the recordation tax. One rule reaches partnerships with no deed at all: section 42-1102.02 treats the transfer of a controlling economic interest in a property-holding entity as a taxable conveyance.

Recording is one counter for the entire District, the Recorder of Deeds at the Office of Tax and Revenue, and section 47-1431(a) puts the deed on record within 30 days of execution. The purchase delivers this configuration as a fillable PDF, a completed example worked through for a Deanwood parcel released by a District limited partnership, and a plain-language guide covering the numbered sections, the signer's authority, and the sealing, acknowledgment, and recording steps. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.