Smith County Warranty Deed (Corporation Grantor) Form

When the grantor on a Texas deed is a corporation, two bodies of law meet on one page. Property Code Chapter 5 supplies the conveyance: the words grant, sell, and convey, and the covenant of general warranty that promises to defend the title against every lawful claim, however old. The Business Organizations Code supplies the actor: an entity that signs only through an officer, acting under authority the board of directors grants by resolution. This form prepares a general warranty deed built for that pairing, replacing the individual signature and notary blocks found on most deed forms with their corporate counterparts.

A warranty that reaches the whole chain

The deed follows the statutory form of Property Code Section 5.022: the corporation grants, sells, and conveys the property, and binds itself and its successors to warrant and forever defend the title against every person whomsoever lawfully claiming any part of it. That covenant reaches title defects that arose before the corporation ever owned the property, which is what separates a general warranty deed from a special warranty, a deed without warranty, or a quitclaim. The words grant and convey also carry the implied covenants of Section 5.023, that the grantor has not conveyed the same estate to anyone else and that the estate is free from encumbrances, and this deed leaves them intact. A dedicated section lists the reservations and exceptions, such as recorded restrictive covenants, platted easements, and mineral interests, that the conveyance and the warranty are subject to; the accuracy of that list is what keeps a known, recorded encumbrance from becoming a warranty claim.

Who signs for the corporation

Business Organizations Code Section 21.462 provides that a corporation may convey its real property when authorized by an appropriate resolution of the board of directors, and Section 21.455(a) provides that an ordinary conveyance requires no shareholder approval unless it amounts to a sale of all or substantially all of the corporation's assets. The resolution stays in the corporate minute book; on the deed itself, one officer signs the By line for the corporation, with the officer's printed name and title beneath the signature, the arrangement Local Government Code Section 191.007(e) contemplates for recorded instruments.

The corporate acknowledgment

The notary certificate on this form is the corporate short form of Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 121.008: it recites the officer's name and title, the corporation's name, and its state of incorporation, acknowledged on behalf of the corporation. A blank for the state of incorporation appears in the grantor section as well, so a foreign corporation is described accurately in both places. The completed deed is recorded with the county clerk of the county where the property is located; Texas imposes no deed transfer tax, and the confidentiality notice required by Property Code Section 11.008 appears at the top of the first page.

The package contains the blank deed as a fillable PDF with a plain instructions page, a completed example showing the entire document filled in for a realistic Tarrant County transaction, and a guide that walks through every numbered section, the signature block, and the acknowledgment. The materials are informational and are not legal advice. The Texas Deed Without Warranty, which conveys the property while expressly excluding the implied covenants, and the Texas Quitclaim Deed, which releases only the grantor's right, title, and interest, carry the same package structure.