Maine Quitclaim Deed (Two Grantors)

Two grantors, one grantee, one recorded instrument: this Maine quitclaim deed without covenant is configured for co-owners releasing their interests together. Both owners sign the same release deed, each signature carries its own printed name line and its own acknowledgment certificate, and the grantee receives everything the two grantors hold in the described Maine real property in a single trip through the registry of deeds.

Both interests, one instrument

Maine's Short Form Deeds Act names this instrument the quitclaim deed without covenant, or release deed, and gives the word release its reach: under 33 M.R.S. Sections 161 and 771, a release moves all the estate a grantor holds and could pass by any other form of deed. Put two grantors on one deed and the release gathers both interests at once, so a title split between two owners can leave the record in one conveyance. The configuration appears wherever co-owners act together: two heirs who took shares of a family property under a deed of distribution and pass them to one relative, two joint tenants placing the whole record title in a single name, and a couple releasing jointly held land to one buyer.

The deed also states its limits plainly. The grantors release all of their right, title, and interest, and nothing more; a deed signed by two of a parcel's three owners moves two interests and leaves the third where it was. The instrument carries no warranty covenants and no quitclaim covenant, so the grantee takes whatever interest the record actually supports, subject to the mortgages, easements, and restrictions already on it.

Two signatures, two certificates

The signature section provides a line for each grantor, with the typed or printed name that 33 M.R.S. Section 651-A directs beneath every signature the register records. Each grantor then acknowledges under a certificate of that grantor's own, in the Maine short form of 4 M.R.S. Section 1917. One certificate per signer is architecture rather than statutory command, and it earns its space when the grantors are apart: the completed example shows the first grantor acknowledging in Penobscot County and the second, two days later, before a different notary in Kennebec County. Under 33 M.R.S. Section 203, a notary public in the State, an attorney eligible to practice in Maine, or another listed officer takes the acknowledgment, and a certificate compliant with the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts supports recording, including for a grantor who signs away from Maine.

What the deed collects for the record

The numbered sections gather what Maine title work runs on. The grantee entry takes the mailing address 33 M.R.S. Section 456 calls for, street and number, municipality and state. The source of title entry holds the registry book and page of the deed under which the two grantors hold their interests, and the description section accepts a metes and bounds description or a recorded plan reference, the two patterns 33 M.R.S. Section 201-A supports. An encumbrance section lists the matters already of record, and the form's own text states that the listing is informational and carries no covenant.

One recording, one fee

The deed is recorded at the registry of deeds of the county where the land lies, and because both releases ride in one instrument, a single statutory recording fee of 40 dollars covers them both. The document is laid out to the Maine Registers of Deeds Association all-county standards, from the reserved recording space at the top of page one to the clean bottom margin on the final page. A real estate transfer tax declaration accompanies a Maine deed offered for recording unless an exemption applies, and the guide covers the declaration, the current rates, and the exemption categories in full.

The download contains the blank two-grantor deed as a fillable PDF, a plain language guide to every numbered section of the form, and a completed example filled in for a realistic Penobscot County fact pattern, from the two grantor blocks through the second acknowledgment. Searchers name this instrument a quit claim deed for two owners, a joint quitclaim deed, or a two-grantor release deed; under any of those names, the materials are informational and are not legal advice.