Kansas Quitclaim Deed (Corporation Grantor)

One officer signs this Kansas quitclaim deed, and Kansas has a statute that says so. The grantor is a corporation, named with the jurisdiction of its incorporation, and one named officer executes the deed in the office that officer holds. What travels is the corporation's right, title, and interest at delivery, under the brief statutory pattern of K.S.A. 58-2204, with nothing promised about it. Searches that arrive here read corporate quitclaim deed, quit claim deed from a corporation, or deed out of a corporation.

A statute written for the corporate signature

Kansas puts corporate execution in its own section of the corporation code. K.S.A. 17-6003, titled Execution of deed or other instrument conveying land, real estate or interests therein by corporation, provides that a corporation's conveyance of land is executed on its behalf by any authorized officer, and that the deed, once acknowledged by that officer to be the act of the corporation, may be recorded in the same manner and with the same effect as other deeds. K.S.A. 17-6102(d) supplies the underlying power to hold and convey real property wherever situated, and K.S.A. 17-6301(a) leaves the corporation's affairs under the direction of its board. Size can add a second approval: K.S.A. 17-6801(a) conditions a sale of all or substantially all of the corporate assets on a resolution of the holders of a majority of the voting stock. Section 11 recites the office and the authorization. That recital states what the signer asserts; it does not by itself establish, prove, or confirm what the board resolved, and the resolution behind it is separate paperwork, prepared apart from this package.

One officer, one certificate, twelve sections

Twelve numbered sections carry the arrangement. Section 1 names the corporation and its jurisdiction of incorporation, Section 2 names the signing individual and the office held, and the sections between gather the grantee with any co-ownership designation, the tax statement address K.S.A. 58-2221 routes to the county clerk, the county and legal description, the vesting instrument, and matters of record. One signature block follows above a printed name line, and one certificate follows in the Kansas representative capacity short form from K.A.R. 7-43-17 rather than the individual form. K.S.A. 53-5a02(a) supplies the reason: where a signature is made in a representative capacity, the acknowledgment declares that the signer had proper authority and acted for the entity the record names. The Kansas Notary Handbook adds that the notary is under no duty to check that authority. Patterns of this shape include a corporation releasing an interest it retains in a vacated alley beside ground it sold years earlier, a corporation named in an old chain releasing to the current record owner, and a straight sale in which the buyer takes title as the record shows it. Because the grantor is a corporation rather than a married person, no spousal consent block is drawn; a corporation whose bylaws call for a second executing or attesting officer presents a signature line this layout does not carry.

No covenants, and no seal

Every covenant K.S.A. 58-2203 fastens to the words conveys and warrants is absent: no seizin, no freedom from encumbrances, no quiet possession, no duty to defend. K.S.A. 58-2202 still moves the whole estate the corporation holds unless the deed shows a lesser one. A seal is optional: K.S.A. 17-6102(c) merely lists a corporate seal among corporate powers, and K.S.A. 77-201 provides that a deed does not imply a sealed instrument. Recording supplies what the missing covenants do not: under K.S.A. 58-2222 a filed instrument gives notice from the time of filing, while an unrecorded one reaches only the parties and persons with actual notice.

What the register of deeds looks for

A corporate sale for a price is the ordinary Kansas intake case, so the Department of Revenue questionnaire K.S.A. 79-1437c demands normally rides along, unrecorded and confidential by statute; Section 10 also takes a K.S.A. 79-1437e exemption number where one applies, written on by the parties. Fees follow K.S.A. 28-115, published county by county at twenty-one dollars for a first page and seventeen for each page after, and no Kansas county collects a deed transfer tax.

The download brings the fillable corporate quitclaim deed, a completed example set in Lyon County where the president of an Emporia corporation sells a platted commercial lot for cash, and a guide covering the sections, the corporation code behind the signature, the representative acknowledgment, and recording. These materials describe Kansas law in general terms and are not legal advice.