Essex County Quitclaim Deed (Two Grantors) Form

When Massachusetts real estate stands in two names, the deed out of that title carries both of them: each record owner joins in the conveyance, and the registry indexes every grantor who signs. This quitclaim deed form recites exactly two grantors and one grantee, with a separate signature line, printed name, and acknowledgment certificate for each owner, plus a labeled homestead release line, so a conveyance out of co-owned Massachusetts title reads complete from the granting clause to the last certificate.

Two grantors, two acknowledgment certificates

The deed names both grantors in its opening section, and the operative language states that each grantor conveys that grantor's entire right, title and interest, so the instrument passes whatever the two owners together hold. Each grantor signs above a printed name and date, and each signature carries its own certificate reciting the substance of the statutory Massachusetts acknowledgment: personal appearance, satisfactory evidence of identification, and a voluntary signing for the deed's stated purpose. Massachusetts law does not require a separate certificate for each signer; the two-certificate layout is what lets the owners appear before different notaries, in different counties or even different states, on different dates, and still hand the registry a deed whose execution pages are already in order.

A married couple holding as tenants by the entirety and selling to a buyer, two joint tenants conveying the whole of a shared parcel, and siblings passing inherited land they hold as tenants in common to a single grantee all present the two-owner pattern this deed recites. The form is not set up as a sole-owner, entity, or fiduciary instrument, and a conveyance by three or more record owners follows a different signature pattern than the one this form carries.

Covenants that run from both owners

General Laws Chapter 183, Section 11 gives a deed following the statutory quitclaim form the effect of a conveyance in fee simple with limited covenants, and Section 17 folds the whole package into the two words quitclaim covenants. On this form the covenants speak for both grantors: the premises are free of encumbrances the grantors themselves made, and the grantors will defend the title against claims tracing to their own period of ownership, but against none other. The encumbrances section lists the matters the conveyance is subject to, and the deed excepts the listed matters from the covenants, so an outstanding mortgage or a recorded easement sits outside what the grantors promise. Searches for a Massachusetts quit claim deed for two owners, a co-owner deed, or a husband and wife quitclaim deed form all describe this same instrument.

Homestead when the owners are two

General Laws Chapter 188, Section 10 ends an existing homestead on a conveyance outside the family only when the owner signs together with any non-owner spouse or former spouse occupying the home as a principal residence. Two grantors often answer that statute by themselves: where a married couple both hold record title, their two grantor signatures are the whole picture. For the other pattern, a grantor whose spouse holds no record interest but lives in the property, the form carries a labeled release line with its own certificate; the block stays blank where no such spouse exists.

Recording across the registry districts

Massachusetts records deeds at the registry for the county, or the registry district, where the land lies, and several counties divide into districts. The completed example runs a Middlesex South District fact pattern end to end: a plan-book legal description in Natick, a book-and-page title reference, a stated consideration of $612,500, and both grantor certificates filled in the way the registry sees them. Deeds excise stamps are purchased at recording on the full consideration, and the statewide fee schedule sets the recording charge for a deed.

The download delivers this two-grantor quitclaim deed as a fillable PDF, together with the completed example and a guide that walks through every numbered section, the certificates, the homestead release, and the recording steps, including the excise and the assessor transfer form that travel with a Massachusetts deed to the registry counter. The materials describe Massachusetts law in general terms and are not legal advice.