Saint Joseph County Quitclaim Deed (Partnership or Limited Partnership Grantor) Form

Title to this parcel stands in a partnership's name, and Michigan law lets it leave only the same way. MCL 449.8(3) provides that an estate in real property acquired in the partnership name can be conveyed only in the partnership name, so this Michigan quitclaim deed names the partnership itself as Grantor and reaches the record through one authorized partner signing in that name, above one printed name and below one acknowledgment certificate.

The partnership name is the vehicle of title

Michigan still conveys partnership land under the uniform partnership act of 1917. Because MCL 449.8(3) confines the conveyance of partnership title to the name that took it, the name does an owner's work here: the deed carries it in the grantor section, again where the partnership signs, and again in the certificate reciting the signing partner's capacity. A limited partnership makes the point visible, since MCL 449.1102(1) requires its name to contain the words limited partnership without abbreviation, and the name in the certificate of limited partnership is the name the parcel travels under.

Which partner may sign, and what stands behind the signature

Authority comes from agency law written into the partnership act. Under MCL 449.9(1) every partner is an agent of the partnership, so an instrument executed in the partnership name for apparently carrying on the business in the usual way binds the partnership, unless that partner in fact lacks authority and the other side knows it. MCL 449.10(1) carries the rule onto land: any partner may convey title held in the partnership name by a conveyance executed in that name, subject to the partnership's right to recover the property where the act did not bind it and the grantee is not a holder for value without knowledge. In a limited partnership the signer is a general partner, who under MCL 449.1403(a) holds the rights and powers of a partner in a partnership without limited partners. A partnership registered as a limited liability partnership under MCL 449.44 executes the same way; the MCL 449.46 shield changes what partners owe, not the name on the title.

One partnership, one signing partner, one certificate

The form recites exactly one partnership Grantor, with entries for the partnership name, the type of partnership, the jurisdiction of organization, and the partnership address, plus a numbered section recording the source of the signing partner's authority, such as the partnership agreement or a written consent of the partners. The execution section repeats the partnership name at signing, states the signer's capacity on its own line, and pairs the signature with the printed name MCL 565.201(1)(a) places beneath it. Patterns presenting this configuration run through Michigan land records: a farming partnership deeding a parcel out after a boundary agreement, and a real estate limited partnership letting an unbuildable outlot go to the owner next door. What the form is not set up as: a deed where record title stands in the individual partners' names, which MCL 449.10(3) and (5) treat on their own terms; a conveyance out of a dissolved partnership, governed by the winding-up sections; or a limited liability company, whose signer is a member or manager under another act.

Value, unplatted acreage, and one step this deed skips

Michigan reads total value from the face of a deed under MCL 207.504(2) and MCL 207.525(2), so the form states it and adds one exemption citation line for the state act and a second for the county act. The completed example runs a taxable Kalamazoo County sale of 12 unplatted acres at $95,000, leaving both exemption lines at None claimed, and it fills in the two land division act statements MCL 560.109 places in a deed for unplatted land. One Michigan routing drops away entirely: MCL 211.135 sends a conveyance containing a covenant of warranty to the county treasurer for certification before recording, and the quitclaim words of MCL 565.152 carry no covenant to certify. Recording follows at the register of deeds of the county holding the parcel, at the flat $30 instrument fee of MCL 600.2567.

The download delivers this partnership quitclaim deed as a blank fillable PDF, a completed example filled in entry by entry for the Kalamazoo County sale described above, and a plain language guide to every section, the partner's acknowledgment, and the recording steps. Often searched as a quit claim deed from a partnership, the form and these materials describe Michigan law in general terms and are not legal advice.