North Dakota · DeedsNorth Dakota deeds: acknowledgment, the grantee's address and who drafted the legal description

Before an instrument can be recorded in North Dakota, its execution must be established: by acknowledgment of the individual signer, by execution and acknowledgment by the person authorized to sign for a corporation or LLC, by proof through a subscribing witness, or by proof of the signer's and a witness's handwriting; unless another state's law provides otherwise, the document and acknowledgment need original signatures (N.D.C.C. §47-19-03). The recorder may not record a deed or contract for deed with a metes and bounds description unless it legibly states the name and address of the person who drafted the description, or that it was obtained from a previously recorded instrument (§47-19-03.1). No deed is received for record unless it shows each grantee's post-office address and any known street address within a city (§47-19-05). An unrecorded conveyance is void against a later good-faith purchaser for value whose conveyance is recorded first (§47-19-41).