Steele County Warranty Deed (Two Grantors) Form

Two owners stand on the grantor side of this North Dakota warranty deed. The form is configured for a pair of grantors of record: each has a named entry, each signs a line of that grantor's own, and each acknowledges before a notary under a certificate dedicated to that signature, so one instrument conveys the property with express warranty covenants from both owners at once under North Dakota Century Code chapter 47-10.

When the record holds two names

A married couple conveying the home they own together, two heirs joining to pass an inherited quarter of farmland in a single instrument, and unrelated co-investors selling a jointly held property present the two-grantor record this deed recites. Each grantor conveys the interest that grantor owns, so when the two named grantors are the only owners of record, the deed carries the entire title in one conveyance instead of two. The form recites exactly two grantors; a sole owner's conveyance follows a different signing pattern than this deed is set up for.

Two signatures that answer the homestead statute

North Dakota's homestead statute, N.D.C.C. 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. That rule is where the two-grantor layout earns its keep for married sellers: when the grantors are spouses conveying the homestead they own together, the deed's two signatures and two acknowledgment certificates are the both-spouses execution the statute describes, built into the instrument's ordinary structure rather than added to it. Dower and curtesy are abolished in North Dakota, so no separate marital release rides along; the homestead rule and the two grantor signatures do that work.

A joint conveyance with joint covenants

The covenants in this deed are express, and the grantors make them together: seizin in fee simple, good right to convey, freedom from encumbrances except the matters the deed lists, quiet enjoyment, further assurance, and a general warranty against the lawful claims of all persons. The deed's exceptions section keeps the warranty honest, carrying the recorded easements, reservations, and current taxes and assessments the conveyance is subject to, and the covenant against encumbrances is the one N.D.C.C. 47-10-18 enforces when a recorded encumbrance turns up, whether it was known or unknown. Buyers searching for a North Dakota general warranty deed for two sellers, a joint warranty deed, or a husband and wife warranty deed form are describing this instrument.

The grantee side, from vesting to certification

The grantee section pairs a names-and-vesting entry with the address content North Dakota recording law expects of a deed. A survivorship form among co-grantees exists only by express declaration: N.D.C.C. 47-02-08 makes tenancy in common the default for two or more grantees, and 47-02-06 reserves joint tenancy with right of survivorship for words that declare it, so the completed example's grantee clause shows the survivorship wording in place. The form then closes the recording loop with the grantee-signed certification of full consideration or exemption that N.D.C.C. 11-18-02.2 puts on the face of every recordable North Dakota deed, and with the drafter statement blanks that serve a metes and bounds description under 47-19-03.1.

The download delivers the two-grantor warranty deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example filled in for a Burleigh County sale from the grantor entries through both acknowledgments, and a guide covering each section, the covenants, the homestead rule, and the recording steps at the auditor's and recorder's offices. The materials describe North Dakota law in general terms and are not legal advice.