North Dakota Quitclaim Deed (Corporation Grantor)

The acknowledgment certificate on this North Dakota quitclaim deed reports that a corporation acknowledged executing the instrument, and the individual who signed appears in it as the officer through whom the entity acted. North Dakota Century Code Section 47-19-28 prescribes that shape, and this form is built to it: one corporate grantor, one officer signing in the corporate name, and a release made with no covenant or warranty of title.

A certificate written for an entity

Section 47-19-28 supplies the certificate of acknowledgment for an instrument executed by a corporation, to be used substantially in the form it sets out. The statutory wording has the notarial officer identify the person appearing as the president, or another officer, of the corporation described in and executing the instrument, then certify that the corporation executed the same. This form prints that certificate rather than an individual one, once, because one person signs.

Where the power to sign is presumed

Section 47-19-03 sets out what must establish an instrument's execution before a recorder may take it, and for an entity it points to Section 47-10-05.1, captioned Presumption of corporate authority of officers. Two entries answer that reference: the signer's name, and the office held, whether president, vice president, secretary, or another position. The paragraph beneath them states that the signature is made in the corporate name and in the stated capacity rather than individually. A board resolution authorizing a particular conveyance sits in the corporation's own records, prepared separately and not included here.

No seal, and no spouse

Corporate deeds once carried an impressed seal beside the signature, and North Dakota asks for none: Section 47-10-05 states that a missing seal does not invalidate the instrument, so no seal notation and no blank for one appear here. Section 47-18-05 conditions the conveyance of a married person's homestead on a signature from each spouse, and an entity has no marriage, so nothing here asks about marital status. Dower and curtesy ended with Section 14-07-09, and Renz v. Renz, 256 N.W.2d 883 (N.D. 1977), records that tenancy by the entirety has never been recognized here.

The three verbs, and the word left out

Three verbs carry the conveyance: the corporation remises, releases, and forever quitclaims its interest. The word left out is the one that matters. Where a North Dakota deed uses grant to convey, Section 47-10-19 supplies two narrow covenants about the grantor's prior dealings, and current Section 47-10-15 lets a quitclaim built on that word pick up title the grantor gains later. This deed states in terms that grant is not among its words of conveyance, and that no covenant or warranty of title is made. What reaches the grantee is the interest the corporation holds at delivery, with recorded easements, plat restrictions, severed minerals, mortgages, and tax liens riding through it undisturbed.

Corporate grantors in the record

Three patterns bring this configuration forward. A corporation winding up its affairs distributes a parcel to its shareholders. A corporation that changed its name, or took an interest by merger, releases an interest still standing on the record under the older name. A corporation conveys a remnant strip to an adjoining owner after a replat. The form is set up for exactly one corporate grantor and one signature, so deeds executed by natural persons, and deeds executed by a fiduciary, take other configurations. Searches for a quit claim deed from a corporation, in either spelling, arrive here.

Two entries a recorder reads before the stamp

Section 11 prints the certification Section 11-18-02.2 puts on the face of a North Dakota deed, taking either the full consideration paid or the exempting subdivision of subsection 6, where subdivision h covers a transfer by quitclaim deed. The grantee, or the agent presenting the instrument, signs and dates that entry, and no notarial officer touches it. Section 5 prints the legal description statement of Section 47-19-03.1 as amended effective August 1, 2025. Address entries for each grantee answer Sections 47-10-07 and 47-19-05, a county auditor's certificate under Section 11-18-02 comes ahead of recording, fees under Section 11-18-05 open at twenty dollars through six pages, and the state levies no deed or transfer tax.

Three files arrive with the purchase: the blank deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example worked through a Stutsman County corporate conveyance, and a guide treating every numbered section, the signing formalities, and the ownership forms open to grantees. These materials describe North Dakota law in general terms and are not legal advice.