Columbia County Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantor) Form

When Oregon land leaves a trust, the signature on the deed belongs to an office. This quitclaim deed names a trustee as its grantor: the person signing holds record title for a trust, signs in that capacity and not individually, and releases to the grantee whatever the trust's interest in the described property amounts to on the day the deed is dated. The form prepares that instrument under ORS 93.865 for one trustee grantor.

Signing in an office rather than in a person

Oregon's Uniform Trust Code puts trust property in the trustee's hands and the powers with it. ORS 130.720 gives a trustee the powers the terms of the trust confer plus, except as those terms limit them, the powers of the chapter; ORS 130.725 lists specific ones, among them sale of property at public or private sale and the signing of instruments useful to a trustee's powers. Because those terms govern, this deed puts the trust and the date of the trust instrument on its face beside the trustee's name and stated capacity, and its conveyance section has the grantor act solely as trustee, taking no personal obligation. The certificate that follows is the representative capacity short form of ORS 194.285(2), naming the individual, the type of authority, and the party on whose behalf the record was executed.

The trustee grantor configuration

The form recites one trustee, signing alone, so it carries a single signature block and a single acknowledgment certificate. A successor trustee distributing trust real property to a beneficiary after the settlor's death, a trustee releasing the trust's interest to a buyer, a trustee handing a parcel back to a living settlor who is unwinding a revocable living trust, and a trustee releasing a stray trust interest that clouds a title present the pattern this deed recites. A grantor signing personally states no fiduciary capacity and identifies no trust; two co-trustees, a personal representative, an attorney in fact, and a company officer each state a different authority and follow a different signature and certificate pattern than this form carries. Nobody signs beside the trustee on account of marriage, ORS 112.685 having abolished dower and curtesy.

What a release out of a trust carries, and what it leaves behind

ORS 93.865(2) fixes the reach of the operative words: what the grantor holds at the date of the deed, legal or equitable, moves to the grantee, nothing picked up later moves, no covenant of title is given, and no estoppel arises. ORS 93.110 adds that a quit claim deed passes every estate the grantor could lawfully convey, and ORS 93.865(3) leaves a grantee's good faith purchaser standing intact. Encumbrances ride through, so a trust deed, a judgment lien or an easement follows the property. The deed proves nothing about the authority behind the signature: a person who wants that evidence looks to the certification of trust of ORS 130.860, executed and furnished separately and not included here.

A first page built to Oregon's list

ORS 205.234 tells an Oregon clerk what page one carries, and the form is laid out around that list: the transaction label, the party names, the after recording delivery block, the consideration, and the tax statement information, under a two inch reserve for the county's recording label. The consideration entry follows ORS 93.030, a figure in dollars plus a line for other property or value, which a distribution out of a trust for no money commonly uses. ORS 93.260 supplies the tax statement sentence, and the ORS 93.040 land use and property rights statement prints in capitals in the body. Paper and type answer to ORS 205.232; this deed prints letter size at 12 point.

At the recording counter

The signed deed goes to the clerk of the county where the land sits, and ORS 93.640 measures priority from the record rather than from the signing. Costs are county figures, several reset on July 1, 2026 when 2025 legislation lifted the cap on the Public Land Corner Preservation fee. No statewide transfer tax reaches an Oregon deed, and ORS 306.815 bars local ones apart from the grandfathered Washington County levy of a dollar per thousand of selling price.

The download holds three items: the fillable trustee grantor quitclaim deed, a completed example prepared for a Marion County distribution to a trust beneficiary, and a plain language guide walking each numbered section, the certificate, and the trip to the county clerk. These materials describe Oregon law in general terms and are not legal advice.