Barnes County Quitclaim Deed (Two Grantors) Form

When North Dakota real estate stands in two names and the whole of it needs to reach one new owner, the deed that does the work carries two signatures. This form prepares a North Dakota quitclaim deed made by exactly two grantors: each grantor has a dedicated signature line and acknowledgment certificate, and one recorded instrument releases both owners' right, title, and interest to the grantee, without covenant or warranty of title.

Both interests move in one instrument

Each grantor conveys that grantor's own interest, and the two releases travel together: the operative words remise, release, and forever quitclaim, spoken by both grantors, place everything the pair holds at delivery in the grantee's hands. What the deed pointedly does not say matters as much. Its words of conveyance never include grant, so the limited covenants North Dakota Century Code Section 47-10-19 reads into that word never arise, and the after-acquired-title consequence Section 47-10-15 attaches to a quitclaim carrying grant stays out of the picture; the form states both exclusions expressly. Title the grantors do not hold does not pass, encumbrances of record ride through unchanged, and the same statute confirms that conveying by quitclaim leaves the conveying parties' own title unharmed.

The homestead statute counts signatures

North Dakota Century Code Section 47-18-05 provides that the homestead of a married person, regardless of value, cannot be conveyed or encumbered unless the instrument is executed and acknowledged by both husband and wife. A married couple conveying North Dakota property therefore presents exactly the architecture this deed carries: two grantors named in Section 1, two signatures in Section 10, and an acknowledgment for each. The grantor section includes a marital status entry, and the completed example follows a Bismarck couple's conveyance from the first entry through both acknowledgments. The same two-grantor pattern appears well beyond marriage: two siblings holding inherited undivided halves who join in a single deed so the buyer takes the entire title, and business partners winding up co-ownership of a parcel, both present it. What the form is not set up as is equally definite: it recites exactly two grantors, so a conveyance requiring a third signature, or a sole owner's release, follows a different architecture.

Two certificates, two calendars

The form carries a separate acknowledgment certificate for each grantor. North Dakota law permits a single certificate substantially in the statutory form to name both signers, so the separate certificates are a design choice with a practical payoff: the grantors may acknowledge on different days, before different notaries, in different states, and the completed example shows the two acknowledgments taken two days apart. Each certificate follows the short form of Section 44-06.1-19, and North Dakota's remote notarization statute, Section 44-06.1-13.1, lets a signer appear before a North Dakota notary through communication technology when its conditions are met.

What the recorder reads first

Two entries printed on the deed answer the recorder's checklist before the stamp comes down. The certification of Section 11-18-02.2 appears in Section 9, designating subdivision h of subsection 6, the exemption covering transfers for which a quitclaim deed is given, signed and dated by the grantee or the agent presenting the deed. The drafter statement of Section 47-19-03.1 appears in Section 7 for descriptions written in metes and bounds. The path to the counter runs through the county auditor, whose certificate of transfer under Section 11-18-02 precedes recording, and the statewide fee for a deed of six pages or fewer is twenty dollars, with no transfer tax anywhere in North Dakota. A quit claim deed for two owners, as the search box often spells it, becomes a recorded North Dakota instrument through exactly these steps.

The download delivers the blank two-grantor quitclaim deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example filled in for a Burleigh County fact pattern, and a guide covering each numbered section, both signing ceremonies, and the trip through the auditor's and recorder's offices. The materials are descriptive of North Dakota law and are not legal advice.