Rhode Island Quitclaim Deed (Partnership or Limited Partnership Grantor)

Rhode Island land can stand in a partnership's own name, and when it moves, the deed answers a question no signature line answers by itself: which partner signed, and what let that partner sign. This quitclaim deed is configured around that answer, with one partnership grantor, general or limited, one partner signing in a named capacity, and a numbered section carrying the authorizing partnership action.

The consent standing behind one signature

Chapter 7-12.1, the Uniform Partnership Act that took effect here on January 1, 2023, makes real estate partnership property when it is acquired in the partnership's name, and it draws a line through the middle of partnership decisions. Section 7-12.1-401 lets a difference about a matter in the ordinary course of business be decided by a majority of the partners, and permits an act outside the ordinary course only with the affirmative vote or consent of all the partners. Which side of that line a sale falls on is a partnership question rather than a recording one, and Section 3 takes the resolution, written consent, or partnership agreement provision by name and date. A limited partnership's parallel provisions sit in Chapter 7-13.1, where Section 7-13.1-402 addresses the general partner as agent and Section 7-13.1-201 has the certificate of limited partnership state each general partner's name and address.

A statement filed in one office and recorded in another

Section 7-12.1-303 lets a partnership settle the signing question in advance, through a statement of partnership authority filed with the secretary of state stating the authority, or its limits, of a position or a named person to sign an instrument transferring real property held in the partnership's name. Real property takes its own rule there: subsection (f) makes a recorded grant of that authority conclusive in favor of a person giving value in reliance on it without knowledge to the contrary, once a certified copy reaches the office for recording transfers of the real property, which in this state is the city or town clerk. Section 3 holds a blank for that reference; the statement is recorded separately and is not part of this package.

Covenants that begin when the partnership bought

A quitclaim deed here is a covenant instrument, not a naked release. Section 34-11-12 supplies the statutory form and Section 34-11-17 fixes the covenant's edge: fee simple passes, and the grantor answers for lawful claims of persons claiming by, through, or under itself. Against a partnership seller that edge falls at the partnership's own period of ownership, and Section 34-11-27 sizes the transfer at whatever estate stands in the partnership name on the day of signing.

One signer, one certificate, thirteen sections

The form recites exactly one grantor, a partnership, and one partner signing for it and not individually, with a printed name beneath the signature line for Section 34-11-1.1 and one acknowledgment certificate carrying the substance Section 34-12-1 describes. Section 1 prints the partnership name with its entity type and jurisdiction of organization; Section 2 prints the individual and the office held, so a general partnership's partner and a limited partnership's general partner are told apart on the face of the deed. Patterns reaching the land evidence records in this shape include a family real estate partnership selling a rental building held for decades, a limited partnership releasing one parcel out of a larger holding, and a partnership deeding a parcel to a partner during a wind up. Structures this deed does not recite include two partners executing together, an individual signing for that person's own account, and a corporation or trustee.

Taxed by the state, recorded by the town

No partnership exemption exists. The list at Section 44-25-2 reaches government grantors and a few project specific categories, so the conveyance tax takes $3.75 of every $500 of consideration, and residential consideration above the indexed 2026 figure of $824,000 draws that rate a second time. Nonresident withholding under Section 44-30-71.3 runs at six percent where the selling partnership is a nonresident. Land evidence records are municipal, so one city or town clerk records the deed, indexed as a partnership quit claim deed, an LP quitclaim deed, or a deed out of a partnership.

Three files arrive with the purchase: the blank deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example worked through a Woonsocket sale by a general partnership, and a plain language guide covering the thirteen sections, the acknowledgment, and municipal recording. The materials describe Rhode Island law in general terms and are not legal advice.