Missouri Quitclaim Deed (Corporation Grantor)

Missouri's statutory certificate for a corporate deed is a sworn statement, not a plain acknowledgment. The officer signing this Missouri quitclaim deed for the Grantor corporation is sworn or affirmed before the notarial officer and states the office held, the corporate seal or the absence of one, and execution by authority of the board of directors. The deed itself releases whatever interest the corporation holds in the described Missouri real property, without warranty of title.

An office signs, not simply a person

Section 442.060 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri is the provision behind this variant: a corporation authorized to hold real estate may convey it by deed, sealed with the common seal and signed by its president or presiding member or trustee, or by another officer whose office carries that authority by board resolution. Chapter 351 supplies the inside view: Section 351.310 puts corporate property under a board of directors, and Section 351.360 locates officer authority in the bylaws or a board resolution. The office held is therefore deed content, collected beside the signer's name.

The certificate that swears to the seal

Section 442.210 sets out Missouri's acknowledgment forms, and the third is drafted for corporations. The officer appears, is sworn or affirmed, states the office held of the corporation described and that the seal affixed is its corporate seal, and acknowledges the instrument as the free act and deed of the corporation, signed and sealed by authority of its board of directors. Where a corporation keeps no seal, the statute drops the seal clause and has the certificate say so instead. This form prints both paths, and a labeled space under the signature line holds an impression where one exists.

One corporation, one officer, one certificate

Entity identity takes three first page blanks: the legal name with the word corporation, company, incorporated, or limited that Section 351.110 requires, the state under whose law it exists, and a mailing address. A later section names the officer and the office held, one signature line runs in the corporate name above a printed name line, and one certificate follows. A printed line states that the Grantor is a corporation and has no marital status, and a married or unmarried line prints on page one for the individual who signs, since Section 442.130 reaches the natural person executing the instrument. Another states that the officer conveys nothing personally and warrants nothing. This shape appears where a corporation releases a vacated strip to the owner next door or lets go of an interest surviving from a predecessor's chain. The form recites one corporation and one signing officer; a deed from two entities, from a Chapter 347 company, or from an individual carries a different grantor block. A resolution or certificate of corporate authority is a separate document, prepared outside this package.

Quitclaim words, and the covenants they keep out

Section 442.420 attaches limited covenants of title to a fee simple conveyance using the words grant, bargain and sell, unless express terms restrain them. This deed uses different operative words, remises, releases, and forever quitclaims, and prints an express sentence that no covenant or warranty of title arises from any word or phrase in it. What passes is the interest held at delivery, which keeps the after acquired title rule of Section 442.430 out; deeds of trust, judgment liens, easements, and unpaid taxes stay where they were. A quit claim deed, a corporate quitclaim, and a quitclaim form name this instrument.

Page one, and what the recorder does with it

Sections 59.310 and 59.313 hold the top three inches of page one open for the recorder, and the form prints below it what those sections list: title, date, the corporate Grantor, the marital status line, the Grantee with the mailing address Section 59.330.2 requires, and a reference locating the legal description in Section 4. Filing goes to the recorder of deeds where the land lies, or to the City of St. Louis recorder, and from filing the record imparts notice to all persons. No transfer tax attaches, though three jurisdictions collect a certificate of value with the deed, filed apart from it.

Three files come with the purchase: this corporation grantor quitclaim deed as a fillable PDF, a completed Buchanan County example in which a milling corporation quitclaims a vacated alley strip to its neighbor, and a plain language guide to every blank, the corporate execution statutes, and recording. These materials describe Missouri law in general terms and are not legal advice.