Rhode Island Warranty Deed (Two Grantors)

A Rhode Island property held by two owners moves whole only when both owners convey. This warranty deed form prepares that conveyance for Rhode Island real property: exactly two grantors join in one deed, both sign, and the grantee takes the entire title with the full statutory covenants of Rhode Island General Laws Chapter 34-11. Two names in the grantor section, two signature lines, two notary certificates: the architecture of the document is the point of it.

Two Grantors, Two Certificates

The form dedicates a separate entry to each record owner in the grantor section, and the signature section carries a signature line, printed name, and date for each. Section 34-11-1.1 asks for the typed or printed name of every signer immediately beneath or adjacent to the signature, and the form builds that placement in. Section 34-12-1 makes acknowledgment by all executing parties part of the recording path and prescribes no set certificate wording. The form carries an acknowledgment certificate for each grantor, an architecture that lets the two owners appear before different notaries, on different dates, even in different states, and still return one recordable deed.

What Two-Owner Titles Look Like in the Record

Rhode Island co-ownership takes three main shapes, and each presents this deed's pattern. Married couples commonly hold as tenants by the entirety, an estate the deed itself creates only when the entireties intent is manifest; under Cull v. Vadnais, neither spouse may sever or alienate that estate without the other's assent, so an entireties conveyance is inherently a two-signature event. Joint tenants with right of survivorship, whose deed manifested the survivorship the statute does not presume, convey together the same way. And two tenants in common, the default reading Section 34-3-1 gives a deed to two or more persons, join in one instrument so the buyer takes both undivided halves at once: siblings who took title together, former partners dividing their affairs by selling, or any pair of investors closing out a joint holding.

One Phrase Carries the Warranty

Rhode Island attaches its strongest title promises to a compact statutory phrase. A deed granting WITH WARRANTY COVENANTS carries, through Sections 34-11-15 and 34-11-16, the grantors' covenants running from lawful seisin in fee simple through quiet enjoyment to the promise to warrant and defend the title against the lawful claims of all persons, with the deed's encumbrances section marking what the covenants except. On this form those promises are made by both grantors, which is what a buyer purchasing from two owners bargains for: covenant protection that reaches the whole title, not half of it.

One Deed, One Municipal Office

Rhode Island records land evidence by city or town rather than by county, so the completed deed goes to the recorder of deeds or the clerk of the municipality where the land lies, where recording makes the conveyance operative against third parties under Sections 34-11-1 and 34-13-2. A sale carries the state conveyance tax, paid by documentary stamps affixed to the deed at recording, and several municipalities also accept deeds through commercial e-recording channels. The completed example that accompanies the form works a realistic Cranston sale from beginning to end: two spouses conveying a platted lot on Blackamore Avenue to a single buyer, with every section filled, both certificates completed, and the return block addressed.

What Arrives with the Form

The download holds three pieces: the blank two-grantor warranty deed as a fillable PDF, the completed Cranston example showing every entry in place, and a plain language guide covering each numbered section, the signing formalities for both grantors, and municipal recording. The materials describe Rhode Island law in general terms and are not legal advice.