Vermont Quitclaim Deed (Partnership or Limited Partnership Grantor)

Alone among Vermont's entity owners, a partnership can put on record the names of the partners empowered to deed its land, and this form is built around that machinery. It is a Vermont quitclaim deed for a partnership grantor: a general partnership, limited liability partnership, or limited partnership holding title in the partnership name conveys whatever interest it owns, without warranty, through one authorized partner's signature. It also answers searches for a partnership deed, quit claim deed, or quick claim deed.

A recorded answer to the signing-authority question

Vermont's partnership act treats land held in the partnership name as property of the partnership, not of the partners individually, 11 V.S.A. section 3213, and permits a partner to execute the transfer instrument in the partnership name, 11 V.S.A. section 3222. Section 3223 supplies the feature no other Vermont entity statute offers: a partnership may file a statement of partnership authority naming the partners authorized to execute an instrument transferring its real property, and a certified copy recorded in the municipal land records is conclusive in favor of a purchaser for value without knowledge to the contrary, while a recorded limitation charges every nonpartner with knowledge of it. The deed's optional authority reference line is where that statement, or a certificate of limited partnership, is cited; the statement itself is filed and recorded separately and is not included in this package.

Who signs when a partnership owns the land

In a general partnership, each partner is an agent of the partnership for the purpose of its business, 11 V.S.A. section 3221. In a limited partnership, the conveying power belongs to a general partner named in the certificate of limited partnership, 11 V.S.A. section 3433; the limited partners stay off the signature page. Either way, the operative section recites that the signer acts in a representative capacity, so the recorded deed binds the partnership rather than the partner personally. No spousal joinder blocks appear: Vermont's homestead joinder statute reaches a married owner, and an entity grantor is not one.

The configuration: one partnership grantor, one partner at the notary

The form recites exactly one partnership grantor, identified by name, form, state of formation, and mailing address, with the authorized partner named directly after it. Eleven numbered sections carry the conveyance to the operative section, in which the partnership remises, releases, and forever quitclaims whatever right, title, and interest it holds at delivery; Vermont supplies no statutory quitclaim form and reads no covenants into an ordinary deed. The partnership's name stands over a By line in the signature block, and the single notary certificate follows the representative-capacity wording of Vermont's statutory short form. Two siblings farming as a general partnership deeding the back pasture to one of them at wind-down, a limited partnership formed decades ago for a ski-country parcel conveying it out as the partners retire, and a partnership retitling land an old deed left in its partners' names present the pattern this deed recites. The form recites title held in the partnership name; record title standing in individual partners' names follows a different execution pattern, and the form is not set up as a deed from an individual owner, from co-owner grantors, or from another kind of entity.

Dissolution deeds and the return that rides along

The deed records with the clerk of the town or city where the land lies, Vermont recording municipally at $15 per page, and 32 V.S.A. section 9608 keeps a clerk from recording a transfer deed until a completed Property Transfer Tax Return, Form PTT-172, and the required Act 250 certificate arrive with it. Two exemptions on that return are written for partnerships: 32 V.S.A. section 9603(15) reaches a transfer into a partnership at its formation with no gain or loss recognized under federal law, and section 9603(16) reaches the dissolution deed from the partnership to a partner on the same terms. Otherwise the general rate is 1.25 percent of value, the clean water surcharge adds 0.22 percent, and the transferee is the liable party.

What ships in the download

The download holds the deed as a fillable PDF with a non-recorded instructions page in front, a completed example prepared for a St. Albans, Franklin County fact pattern in which a limited partnership conveys an orchard lot through its general partner, and a plain language guide covering every numbered section, grantee vesting, the partnership authority statutes, and the recording and transfer tax steps. The materials describe Vermont law in general terms and are not legal advice.