Columbia County Quitclaim Deed (Corporation Grantor) Form

A corporation has no hand to sign with. Oregon answers that in two steps: all corporate powers are exercised by or under the authority of the board of directors under ORS 60.301, and a corporation acts through the officers its bylaws describe or its board appoints under ORS 60.371. This Oregon quitclaim deed is drawn around that structure: one corporation as Grantor, one officer signing in the office stated at the signature line.

The signature, the office, and the minute book

A corporate deed turns on who signs and what authorized the signing. Research for this form located no provision of the Oregon Business Corporation Act that makes an officer's signature on a real property instrument conclusive in favor of a person giving value. ORS 93.410 carries the execution rule instead: a deed signed by the person from whom the interest passes, or by that person's lawful agent, and acknowledged is entitled to record, with no seal of the grantor, corporate or otherwise, required. Authority travels in the corporation's own papers, so Section 7 takes the corporate action behind the conveyance, in the style of a board resolution adopted on a stated date, while the minute book keeps the document. Where a release reaches substantially all of what a corporation owns, ORS 60.534 adds shareholder approval to board action. The guide describes the corporate evidence a purchaser or title company asks to see, the bylaws, a board authorization, or an ORS 60.027 certificate of existence, none of it part of this package.

The corporation grantor configuration

Section 1 takes the corporate name as the public record carries it, with the word or abbreviation ORS 60.094 requires, plus the state or country of incorporation, which separates it from a similarly named corporation formed elsewhere. Section 9 prints the corporate name above one signature line, takes the office held by the signing individual, and closes with printed name and date. One acknowledgment certificate follows, in the representative capacity pattern of ORS 194.285: the individual, the authority held, and the party on whose behalf the record was executed. A corporation deeding a lot to a shareholder who surrendered stock for it, a corporation releasing an interest standing under a former corporate name, and a corporation clearing whatever it holds under an old unrecorded option all present the single corporate signer this deed recites. The form is built for one business corporation acting through one officer; a limited liability company, a limited partnership, a nonprofit corporation under ORS chapter 65, an individual owner, a trustee, and an attorney in fact each state a different capacity and take certificate wording this form does not draw.

What the statutory words measure

ORS 93.865 measures releases and quitclaims against the corporation's actual holding. Whatever legal or equitable interest the corporation holds on the day the deed is dated moves to the grantee, a later acquisition does not follow it, and the instrument gives no title covenant. Corporate holdings are often partial by design, so the deed may move a fractional share alone. Burdens stay put: a trust deed, a judgment lien, a recorded easement, and the corporation's note all survive.

Page one, and the recording counter

ORS 205.234 settles what page one carries, and this deed is laid out to that list beneath a two inch band held clear for the county recording label: the transaction name, the party names, the delivery address after recording, the ORS 93.030 consideration in dollars with a companion line for other property or value, and the ORS 93.260 tax statement sentence. The ORS 93.040 land use statements print in capitals in the body, and the sheet is letter size at twelve point, inside the 8.5 by 14 inch and ten point limits of ORS 205.232. Filing goes promptly to the clerk of the county where the land lies; ORS 93.640 measures priority from the record. Charges are county figures, several reset on July 1, 2026 after 2025 legislation lifted the Public Land Corner Preservation ceiling. No transfer tax reaches an Oregon deed statewide, and ORS 306.815 bars local ones apart from a grandfathered Washington County levy of a dollar per thousand dollars of selling price.

The download holds the fillable corporation grantor deed, a completed example prepared for a Benton County release from a seed company to a shareholder, and a plain language guide to each numbered section, the acknowledgment certificate, and the trip to the county clerk. These materials describe Oregon law in general terms and are not legal advice.