Strafford County Quitclaim Deed Form

New Hampshire writes its quitclaim deed around the same verb a warranty deed uses. RSA 477:24 makes grant a sufficient word of conveyance and says that no covenant is implied from it, so the promises ride on two words placed after the grantee's name: with quitclaim covenants. The fillable deed in this package is drawn on RSA 477:28 and prepared for one or two individual grantors conveying New Hampshire real estate to one or two grantees.

What Those Two Words Reach

RSA 477:28 declares the effect of its own form. A deed in substance following it passes a fee simple, and the covenant phrase binds the grantor two ways: no incumbrances beyond those the deed states, counting only incumbrances this grantor made, and a defense of the title against claims traced through this grantor and none behind. Both halves are measured from one span of time, the grantor's own years of ownership, which is why the form devotes a numbered section to the instrument the grantor took title by and another to the exceptions. The full covenants of RSA 477:27 reach further back; this phrase stops where the grantor's tenure began.

One or Two Grantors, on Open Lines

The deed preprints no ownership pattern. Section 1 holds one or two grantors, natural persons signing in their own names, and Section 3 holds one or two grantees along with any words fixing how they hold, so the four count patterns the form accommodates are simply what the blanks receive: one grantor to one grantee, one to two, two to one, and two to two. Two signature blocks follow, each carrying the printed name that RSA 478:4-a, I(c) makes an intake item, and each answered by its own acknowledgment certificate in the RSA 456-B:8 short form, so two signers may appear before different officers on different days. Where one grantor conveys, the second block and the second certificate stay blank. A signature given in a company's name, a trustee's signature, and a signature by an agent under a power of attorney each state an authority this deed does not print, and a side with three or more owners exceeds what its two blocks hold.

The Grantee Line Decides Survivorship

New Hampshire settles co-ownership in the grantee entry rather than in the printed text. Under RSA 477:18, adding the words as joint tenants with rights of survivorship after the grantee names in the granting clause is a clear expression of an intention to create a joint tenancy, and the same section reads the phrase as tenants by the entirety that way too, so the phrase produces joint tenancy rather than a separate marital estate. Two grantees named with no such words hold in common instead, each share passing through its own owner's estate. Because the blank governs, the operative section states that words entered in the grantee section about how two or more grantees take title are part of the deed, and the guide walks through every form the state recognizes and the default that fills a silent blank.

Two Gates at the Registry Counter

RSA 478:4-a, I gives the register three things to find on the page: the municipality or municipalities in the first sentence of the description's first paragraph, the latest mailing address of every grantee, and a printed name under each party signature. This form supplies a blank for each. RSA 78-B:6 is the second gate, holding the recording unless evidence of transfer tax payment travels with the deed or the deed itself says the transaction falls outside the tax, which is why a numbered transfer tax section sits ahead of the conveyance language. On a sale the tax runs at 75 cents per $100 against each side, quoted by county schedules as $1.50 per $100, with a $20 floor per side on consideration of $4,000 or less. The declaration of consideration that RSA 78-B:10 sends to the Department of Revenue Administration is prepared apart from this package.

The download delivers the deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example filled in for a Carroll County sale of a Wolfeboro house by two owners to two buyers, and a plain language guide to the twelve numbered sections, the homestead release, the signing formalities, and the recording and tax steps. Buyers reach this instrument as a New Hampshire quit claim deed, spelled as two words, though RSA 477:28 prints quitclaim as one. These materials are informational and are not legal advice.