Dorchester County Warranty Deed (Two Grantors) Form

Two record owners, two signature blocks, and an acknowledgment certificate for each: this fillable South Carolina Warranty Deed is configured for exactly two grantors who join in a single conveyance and warrant the title together under the statutory form of S.C. Code Section 27-7-10. Spouses selling a home titled in both names, two joint tenants closing out a survivorship title in a sale, and two tenants in common passing the whole parcel to a single buyer present the two-grantor pattern this deed recites.

Built around a pair of signers

The form's architecture follows its signature count from the first section to the last. Section 1 carries a labeled entry for each grantor with name and mailing address; the execution section carries a signature block for each grantor over a printed name and date; and the notary pages carry a separate acknowledgment certificate for each grantor, so the certificate count matches the signer count. Two subscribing witness blocks round out the South Carolina pattern, since the statutory conveyance form is executed in the presence of two credible witnesses and recording law requires the deed to be acknowledged or proved before the register of deeds accepts it. The completed example shows both grantors signing at one ceremony before the same two witnesses and one notary. The form recites exactly two record owners; title standing in a single name, in three or more names, or in a trustee or company follows a different signature architecture than the paired blocks here.

Joint and several covenants

The operative section performs the conveyance in the wording of South Carolina Code Section 27-7-10, the granted, bargained, sold and released form, and carries the statutory warranty clause in full, binding the grantors and their heirs, executors, and administrators to warrant and forever defend the property against every person whomsoever lawfully claiming it. Two sentences do work specific to this configuration: the deed states that each grantor conveys that grantor's entire right, title, and interest, and that the covenants are the joint and several undertakings of both grantors, so the warranty runs against both signers together rather than against each for half. The deed also declares the parties' intent that it operate as a sealed instrument, the intent Section 27-7-30 gives effect even where no physical seal is attached.

Content the register of deeds checks

South Carolina puts unusual content requirements on a warranty deed, and the form gives each its own home. A numbered section holds the derivation of title under Section 30-5-35, the entry naming the prior deed's grantor and recording date, or the decedent and probate court where the two owners inherited; the same statute makes the grantee's mailing address required deed content, so the grantee section pairs the name with an address entry. A tax map number blank accompanies the legal description because the large county recording offices list the TMS number among their deed requirements. Page geometry follows the strictest published county intake rules in the state's largest counties: the first page holds its top 1.5 inches open, and every page holds its bottom 1.5 inches open, for recording stamps.

Deed stamps on a two-owner sale

At recording, the county collects the statewide $15 recording charge and the deed recording fee, the charge county schedules call deed stamps, at $1.85 for each $500 of the property's value under Section 12-24-10. The grantors are primarily liable for the fee under Section 12-24-20, a point with practical weight when two sellers split closing costs, and a responsible person connected with the transaction signs the affidavit of value under Section 12-24-70. The guide runs the arithmetic on the example's $385,000 sale, a fee of $1,424.50, and lists the statutory exemptions, including transfers between spouses under federal Section 1041. Once recorded, the deed takes priority from the day and hour of recording under Section 30-7-10.

Inside the download

The package contains the blank two-grantor warranty deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example filled out for a realistic Richland County sale by two owners, and a plain language guide that walks through each section, the witness and notary pattern for two signers, and the recording and fee steps. The materials are informational and are not legal advice; a South Carolina attorney can apply the law to a specific transaction.