Manatee County Quitclaim Deed (Corporation Grantor) Form

Florida names, in statute, the officers whose signature moves a corporation's land. Section 692.01, Florida Statutes, provides that a corporation may execute an instrument conveying any interest in its lands by an instrument sealed with the corporate seal and signed in its name by its president, any vice president, or its chief executive officer, and that no corporate resolution need be recorded to evidence that officer's authority. This form prepares a Florida quitclaim deed in the statutory form of Section 689.025 for that signature: a corporation as first party, one officer signing in the corporation's name and on its behalf.

Whose signature moves a corporation's land

Two statutes meet at the corporate signature line. Section 689.01 sets Florida's general rule that a conveyance of a freehold interest is signed in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, states that no seal is necessary under that section, and adds that corporations may execute any conveyance under that section or under Sections 692.01 and 692.02. Section 692.01 supplies the corporate alternative: a sealed instrument signed by the president, a vice president, or the chief executive officer, valid in the absence of fraud whether or not the board authorized the signer. This deed carries the two witness execution, so the recorded instrument satisfies the general conveyancing statute on its face, with or without a seal. The execution block prints the corporation's name over a By line, with the officer's printed name, title, and date beneath, and the operative section recites that the first party is a corporation executing in its corporate name by the officer whose signature appears below.

A statutory form, adapted for a corporate first party

The deed collects what the statutory form recites: the date of execution, the corporation's name, state or place of incorporation, and post office address, the grantee's name and post office address, the consideration, the county, and the legal description copied from the corporation's vesting deed, plus the parcel identification number blank the statute requires; Section 689.025(3) states that omitting the number does not affect validity or recordability and that it never substitutes for the legal description. The operative Witnesseth sentence keeps the statutory words, remise, release, and quitclaim, joined by an express no warranty statement, the corporate capacity recital, and a successors and assigns clause. What the corporation holds at delivery is what moves, and liens, mortgages, and other matters of record continue against the land.

The corporate officer's certificate

Florida prints a separate short form of acknowledgment for a corporation, Section 695.25(2), and the deed's single certificate follows it: the notary names the officer and title, the corporation, and its state or place of incorporation, on behalf of the corporation, marks whether the officer appeared by physical presence or by online notarization, and states the identification relied on. Section 117.05(4) places the notary's official seal below or to either side of the signature, and the certificate reserves a labeled area for the rubber stamp Florida notaries use. Around it sit the recording data Section 695.26 lists: each witness's printed name and post office address, required for instruments recorded since January 1, 2024, the natural person who prepared the deed, and the grantee's post office address.

What a quitclaim from a corporation carries to the record

A quitclaim deed conveys only the interest the grantor has, if any, which makes it a common instrument between parties who already know the title: a corporation deeding a parcel to a shareholder in a wind up, affiliated companies rearranging holdings, or a release of a partial or doubtful interest to clear the record. Florida's recording act adds a point specific to this deed type: Section 695.01(2) deems grantees by quitclaim deed bona fide purchasers without notice within the recording act. At the counter, the Clerk of the Circuit Court records the deed and collects the documentary stamp tax of Section 201.02, 70 cents per 100 dollars of consideration outside Miami-Dade County, computed on consideration as the tax law defines it, mortgage balance included. The first page keeps its top 3 inches clear for the clerk's recording information.

The download includes the fillable blank deed with a removable instructions page, a completed example built on an Orange County transfer from a Florida corporation to an individual grantee, and a guide that walks through each section, the witness and notary blocks, the corporate execution statutes, and the recording steps. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.