558.8 Affidavits explanatory of title — presumption.
Affidavits explaining any defect in the chain of title to any real estate may be recorded as instruments affecting the same, but no one except the owner in possession of such real estate shall have the right to file such affidavit. Such affidavit or the record thereof, including all such affidavits now of record, shall raise a presumption from the date of recording that the purported facts stated therein are true; after the lapse of three years from the date of such recording, such presumption shall be conclusive.
[C51, §1226; R60, §2234; C73, §1969; C97, §2957; S13, §2963-i; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10073; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §558.8]
Structure Iowa Code
Section 558.1 - “Instruments affecting real estate” defined — revocation.
Section 558.2 - Corporation having seal.
Section 558.3 - Corporation not having seal.
Section 558.5 - Contract for deed — presumption of abandonment.
Section 558.6 - Given names — variation — effect.
Section 558.7 - Assignment of certificate of entry deemed deed.
Section 558.8 - Affidavits explanatory of title — presumption.
Section 558.9 - Railroad land grants — duty to record.
Section 558.10 - Patents covering land in different counties.
Section 558.11 - Record — constructive notice.
Section 558.12 - Transcript of instruments.
Section 558.13 - Transcript recorded.
Section 558.14 - Grantor described as “spouse” or “heir” — presumption.
Section 558.15 - Official stamps of nonresident public notaries — presumption.
Section 558.18 - Certification — effect.
Section 558.19 - Forms of conveyance.
Section 558.20 - Acknowledgments.
Section 558.31 - Proof of execution and delivery in lieu of acknowledgment.
Section 558.32 - Contents of certificate.
Section 558.35 - Married persons.
Section 558.36 - Attorney in fact.
Section 558.40 - Liability of officer.
Section 558.42 - Acknowledgment as condition precedent.
Section 558.44 - Mandatory recordation of conveyances and leases of agricultural land.
Section 558.45 - Notation of assignment or release on index.
Section 558.46 - Mandatory recording of certain residential real estate installment sales contracts.
Section 558.48 - Transfer fee covenant — prohibition.
Section 558.49 - Index records.
Section 558.52 - Alphabetical arrangement.
Section 558.55 - Filing and indexing — constructive notice.
Section 558.57 - Entry on auditor’s transfer books.
Section 558.58 - Recorder to collect and deliver to auditor.
Section 558.59 - Final record.
Section 558.60 - Transfer and index books.
Section 558.61 - Form of transfer book.
Section 558.62 - Form of index book.
Section 558.63 - Book of plats — how kept.
Section 558.64 - Entries of transfers.
Section 558.65 - Council’s approval of certain plats.
Section 558.66 - Updating county administrative records.
Section 558.67 - Correction of books and instruments.
Section 558.68 - Perpetuities.
Section 558.69 - Groundwater hazard statement — requirements — liability.