Smith County Warranty Deed (Individual Grantor) Form

This Tennessee warranty deed is set up for one individual grantor: a single natural person conveying real property in that person's own name, with one signature line and one acknowledgment certificate. The form conveys with a general warranty of title under the statutory short form in Tennessee Code Annotated Section 66-5-103(1)(A), and it collects the face-of-the-deed content a Tennessee register of deeds checks before accepting a conveyance for record.

A warranty against all persons whomsoever

Tennessee keeps its deed forms short by statute. Section 66-5-103(1)(A) states the general warranty conveyance in a single sentence: the grantor conveys the described land and warrants the title against all persons whomsoever. Two companion rules do the rest: Section 66-5-101 passes the grantor's entire estate unless the deed states a lesser one, and Section 66-1-101 drops the old requirement of words of inheritance. The warranty in this form is the general one, reaching the whole chain of title rather than only claims arising under the grantor, and the deed states it subject to the exceptions the parties list on the face of the instrument, recorded restrictions, easements, current-year taxes, and any lien that remains outstanding. Tennessee treats that listing seriously: under Section 66-3-104, conveying by general warranty deed while concealing known liens with intent to defraud is a felony.

One grantor, one signature, one certificate

The form recites exactly one individual grantor and carries one signature line and one notarial certificate, the configuration of a sole record owner conveying alone. A grantor section line records marital status, because Tennessee homestead law, Section 26-2-301, conditions alienation of a homestead on the joint consent of both spouses when a marital relationship exists, and because property held by spouses as tenants by the entirety presents a two-grantor pattern with two signatures and two certificates, an architecture this form is not set up as. The grantee side is open: the deed may run to one grantee taking sole ownership, as the completed example shows, or to co-grantees whose designation, tenancy in common, an express right of survivorship, or the marital entireties estate, follows their names in the grantee section.

What Tennessee expects on the face of the deed

Tennessee registers check specific content before receiving a deed, and each item has its own blank here. The derivation of title recital under Section 66-24-110 states where the grantor's title came from, ordinarily the recorded deed reference. The assessor's parcel identification number appears under Section 66-24-122, the names and addresses of the new owner and of the party responsible for the property taxes appear under Section 66-24-114, and the preparer statement under Section 66-24-115 names the person who prepared the instrument. A source-of-description statement follows the legal description under Section 66-24-121, and in a metropolitan county such as Davidson the improved-property street address notation under Section 66-24-113 rides at the same spot; the form's address section carries that improved-property wording statewide.

The oath of value and the transfer tax

A Tennessee warranty deed also carries a sworn statement no out-of-state form anticipates: under Section 67-4-409, the grantee or the grantee's agent swears on the face of the instrument to the actual consideration or the value of the property, whichever is greater, and the state realty transfer tax of thirty-seven cents per hundred dollars is computed on that amount and collected by the register at recording. This form builds the oath in, with the dollar blank, the affiant signature line, and the jurat, so the deed arrives at the counter complete. Statutory recording fees are modest and statewide: ten dollars for a document of up to two pages, five dollars for each additional page, and a two dollar data-processing fee.

What the purchase delivers

The download contains the fillable Tennessee general warranty deed form for an individual grantor, a completed example showing one filled-in version of the same deed on a Knox County fact pattern, and a guide that walks through every section, the acknowledgment, the oath of value, and the recording steps. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.