589.17 Conveyances by spouse under power.
A conveyance of real estate executed more than ten years earlier, in which the husband or wife conveyed or contracted to convey the inchoate right of dower through the other spouse, acting as the attorney in fact, by virtue of a power of attorney executed by the spouse, the power of attorney not having been executed as a part of a contract of separation, are not invalid.
[S'02, §2942-f; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10399; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.17]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §14; 91 Acts, ch 183, §24
Structure Iowa Code
Section 589.1 - Acknowledgments — seal not affixed.
Section 589.2 - Conveyances by county.
Section 589.3 - Absence of or defective acknowledgments.
Section 589.4 - Acknowledgments by corporation officers.
Section 589.5 - Acknowledgments by stockholders.
Section 589.6 - Instruments affecting real estate.
Section 589.8 - Mortgages, trust deeds and realty liens — releases.
Section 589.9 - Marginal releases of school-fund mortgages.
Section 589.10 - Marginal assignment of mortgage or lien.
Section 589.11 - Conveyances by fiduciaries.
Section 589.12 - Sheriffs’ deeds.
Section 589.13 - Sheriff’s deed executed by deputy.
Section 589.14 - Defective tax deeds.
Section 589.15 - Tax deeds legalized.
Section 589.16 - Tax sales legalized.
Section 589.16A - Defect in tax sale proceeding.
Section 589.17 - Conveyances by spouse under power.
Section 589.18 - Conveyances by foreign executors.
Section 589.19 - Conveyances under school-fund foreclosures.
Section 589.21 - Releases and discharges.
Section 589.22 - Certain loans, contracts, and mortgages.
Section 589.23 - Descriptions referring to defective plats.
Section 589.24 - Defective instruments.
Section 589.25 - Sales of real estate by school district.
Section 589.26 - Land transfers by the department of human services legalized.
Section 589.27 - Condemnation by department of transportation.
Section 589.28 - County surplus property — sale legalized.
Section 589.29 - Permission to lay water mains.