New Hampshire Quitclaim Deed (Corporation Grantor)

New Hampshire keeps a statute of its own for a corporation's deed, one sentence long. RSA 477:2 provides that any public or private corporation authorized to hold real estate may convey the same by an agent appointed by vote for that purpose. This fillable form prepares that conveyance under RSA 477:28 for a single corporate grantor: one officer or agent signs in the corporate name, and a numbered section carries the vote behind the signature.

The Vote Standing Behind the Signature

RSA 477:2 frames a corporate conveyance in the language of agency, and the working machinery sits in the New Hampshire Business Corporation Act: RSA 293-A:3.02(a) gives a corporation the same powers as an individual to own real property and to sell, convey, and mortgage it, and RSA 293-A:8.40 and RSA 293-A:8.41 govern its offices and the functions of its officers. Section 9 collects the authorizing action itself, commonly a vote of the directors identified by date, with the recording reference of a certificate of vote where one is recorded. That certificate is a separate document, prepared and recorded apart from this package.

How Far a Board Goes Alone

Not every parcel is an ordinary asset to the corporation that owns it, and two sections split the question by their own titles: RSA 293-A:12.01, Disposition of Assets Not Requiring Shareholder Approval, and RSA 293-A:12.02, Shareholder Approval of Certain Dispositions. A routine sale rides on the board's action, while a disposition reaching the RSA 293-A:12.02 threshold brings the shareholders into it, and RSA 293-A:13.02(a)(3) attaches appraisal rights to a disposition consummated under that section. Section 9 has room for either answer, because what belongs on the recorded page is the action actually taken.

One Signature, One Certificate, a Capacity in Print

The form recites exactly one grantor, a corporation identified by name, type of corporation, state of organization, and mailing address. Section 2 names the individual who will sign and the office held, President or Treasurer or the title an appointed agent carries. One signature line follows, its printed name entry answering RSA 478:4-a, I(c), then a single certificate whose by-line takes what the RSA 456-B:8, II representative capacity short form calls for: the signer's name, the type of authority, and the party on whose behalf the deed was executed. No seal is asked of either one, since RSA 477:1 makes an unsealed conveyance as effectual as though sealed. Ownership patterns that present this configuration in the record include a corporation selling a commercial parcel on a directors' vote, a corporation releasing a remnant strip to an abutter to settle a boundary line, and a voluntary corporation under RSA 292 conveying land its members voted to sell. An individual owner, two grantors, and a trustee each recite a different capacity.

Where the Covenant Window Opens

A New Hampshire quitclaim promises something rather than nothing. The words with quitclaim covenants cover encumbrances this grantor itself made, apart from those the deed excepts, and reach no further back. Section 7 is where that window opens, naming the instrument by which the corporation took title, whether a purchase last spring or a conveyance to the founders three generations ago. Section 8 gathers the exceptions, and the covenant text printed here runs to the corporation and its successors and assigns.

Transfer Tax on a Corporate Transfer

Section 10 carries what RSA 78-B:6 wants before a register will complete the recording at all: either proof of payment travels with the deed, or the deed says on its face that the transfer falls outside the tax. On a sale the tax runs against both sides at 75 cents per $100 of the price, which county schedules quote as $1.50 per $100. Corporate conveyances reach more than one exemption in RSA 78-B:2: paragraph XXI covers a transfer coincidental to a change in the transferor's form of organization, and paragraph XXII a transfer between an entity and its owners in either direction, on stated conditions about consideration, ownership percentages, and the parties' assets and liabilities.

The package includes the deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example prepared for a Sullivan County sale by a Claremont manufacturer, and a plain language guide covering the eleven numbered sections, the authority entries, and the recording and tax steps. Buyers look for this instrument as a corporate deed or a business quitclaim deed, and the spelling quit claim is common, though RSA 477:28 writes it as one word. These materials describe New Hampshire law in general terms and are not legal advice.