Benton County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) Form

The signature on this Mississippi quitclaim deed comes from an office rather than from ownership. A trust holds no pen: the acting trustee signs, in that capacity and not individually. This fillable form prepares that conveyance for one trustee grantor, without warranty of title, drafted to the intake rules a Mississippi chancery clerk applies.

An office, not an owner

Land in a trustee's name moves by the trustee's hand, and the deed shows which hand that was. Section 4 names the trust, gives the date of the trust instrument, and states the grantor's capacity, such as trustee or successor trustee. Section 10 states that the grantor executes the deed solely as trustee of that trust and not individually. The printed name under the signature line carries that capacity, and the certificate names the individual with the trust served, in the manner of the representative short form at Miss. Code Ann. Section 89-3-7(2).

Where a Mississippi trustee's signing power comes from

The Mississippi Uniform Trust Code, Title 91, Chapter 8, effective July 1, 2014, stands behind the signature. Section 91-8-815 states a trustee's general powers, and Section 91-8-816(b) states specific ones, opening with a limit: unless the terms of the instrument expressly provide otherwise, a trustee may sell property at public or private sale and may sign and deliver instruments useful to the exercise of the trustee's powers. Because a trust instrument can narrow what the statute supplies, an examiner commonly asks for the trust or a certification of trust under Section 91-8-1013, prepared separately and not included here. Section 91-8-1012 protects a person who in good faith and for value deals with a trustee without actual knowledge that a power is being exceeded, and requires no inquiry into how far the trustee's powers reach. Under Section 91-8-1010 a trustee is not personally liable on a contract properly entered into in a disclosed fiduciary capacity, except as the contract provides otherwise, and Section 10 adds that the grantor gives no personal covenant by signing.

What a quitclaim carries out of a trust

No warranty words appear in the operative language. Section 89-1-37 treats a deed made without warranty as a quitclaim and release of the grantor's title and possession, and Section 89-1-39 carries whatever estate the grantor may lawfully convey while barring a later adverse claim by the grantor or the grantor's heirs. Encumbrances stay where they sit: a deed of trust signed while the trust held the land remains on it, and judgment liens, easements, and mineral reservations survive the transfer. A capitalized paragraph names the five covenants Section 89-1-33 gathers into the word warrant and states that the trustee makes none of them.

One trustee, one certificate, one trust named on the face

The form recites exactly one acting trustee as grantor, with one signature block and one certificate. The receiving side stays open, taking one grantee or several, and the guide walks each ownership form the state recognizes for grantees, from the Section 89-1-7 tenancy in common default onward. A trustee releasing the trust's undivided interest in family land to a co-owner, a successor trustee clearing a fractional interest still in the trust's name, and a trustee passing a surveyed boundary strip to a neighbor all present the record this deed recites. The form is not set up for two trustees signing together, for a settlor or beneficiary signing individually, or for a married individual owner conveying homestead, where Section 89-1-29 calls for the spouse's signature. A search for a trust quit claim deed reaches this instrument.

At the chancery clerk's counter

Page one keeps its top three inches clear for the clerk and, below that reserve, carries the preparer block, the return address, the title, each party's name, mailing address, and telephone numbers, and the indexing instruction, as Section 89-5-24(2) describes; the legal description begins on page two under that section's continuation sentence. A clerk may refuse a deed that omits the mailing address or telephone numbers Section 27-3-51 asks of each party, so both sections collect them, and the Section 89-5-33(3) indexing entry sits distinctly set apart in its own numbered section. Section 25-7-9 puts the base charge at twenty five dollars for the first five pages, and this deed runs four.

Three files download together: the blank trustee grantor quitclaim deed as a fillable PDF, a completed Forrest County example, and a plain-language guide to the numbered sections, the trust blanks, signing, and recording. These materials describe Mississippi law generally and are not legal advice.