Rapides Parish Warranty Deed (Two Grantors) Form

When two people hold Louisiana immovable property, a sale of the whole carries both of their signatures, and this warranty deed is built around that fact. The form prepares a Louisiana act of sale with full warranty for exactly two grantors conveying to one grantee, executed in the authentic act form before a Louisiana notary and two witnesses, and it is the two grantor configuration of the instrument Louisiana practice also calls a cash sale deed.

Two signatures the Civil Code expects

Louisiana writes the two signature rule into its marital property and co-ownership law. Spouses selling a community immovable present the first pattern: Civil Code article 2347 requires the concurrence of both spouses to alienate community immovable property, and article 2353 makes a sale without the required concurrence relatively null. Each spouse already owns a present undivided one half interest under article 2336, so the act carries both spouses as grantors and both signature lines supply the concurrence in the recorded act itself. Co-owners in indivision present the second pattern: under article 797 ownership by two or more persons is ownership in indivision with shares presumed equal, and under article 805 the alienation of the entire thing takes the concurrence of all co-owners. Two siblings who inherited a house together, a divorced couple selling a former community lot under article 2369.4, and two investors who bought as co-owners all appear in the parish records as two grantor conveyances of this shape.

Full warranty, backed by the grantors' own chain rights

The act states the sale at the strongest warranty posture the Civil Code supplies. Articles 2475 and 2503 bind the sellers to warrant ownership and peaceful possession in every sale unless the warranty is limited, and article 2500 measures the warranty against encumbrances that existed at the sale and were not declared, which is why the form gives declared matters of record their own numbered section. The conveyance section adds the customary transfer and subrogation of the grantors' warranty rights and actions against preceding owners and vendors, so the grantee holds warranty claims running through earlier links of the title, not only against the two sellers named on page one.

What this two grantor act recites

The form carries a numbered entry for each grantor with the full name, marital status, domicile, and permanent mailing address the registry articles list, a single grantee entry in the same style, the price in words and figures, the parish and legal description, the source of title, and the declared encumbrances. The conveyance section recites that both grantors join and concur in the sale of the entire interest. The signature area holds lines for both grantors, the grantee, and two competent witnesses, and the act closes with one Thus Done and Passed certificate naming every signer, carrying the notary identification or bar roll number that R.S. 35:12 makes recording data. The ceremony is in person, since R.S. 35:623 keeps authentic acts outside remote online notarization. The form recites exactly two grantors signing in their own right; a sole owner's act, an act for three or more sellers, and an entity grantor acting through an officer follow different signature architecture than this document recites.

Filing with the parish clerk

Between the parties the sale is effective on consent to the thing and the price under Civil Code article 2456; against third persons the act takes effect only from filing for registry in the parish where the property sits, under articles 3338 and 3347, so the completed act goes to the clerk of court promptly after the ceremony. The statewide base recording fee under R.S. 13:844 is $100 for an act of one to five pages before parish additions, and no statewide documentary or transfer tax attaches to a Louisiana deed. The completed example runs the whole act through a Lafayette Parish fact pattern, from the two grantor entries to the parish venue line of the certificate.

The purchase delivers the fillable two grantor warranty deed, the completed Lafayette Parish example, and a plain language guide covering each numbered section, the authentic act ceremony, and parish recording. The materials describe Louisiana law in general terms and are not legal advice.