Iowa Code
Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY
Section 589.18 - Conveyances by foreign executors.

589.18 Conveyances by foreign executors.
All conveyances of real property executed more than ten years earlier, by executors or trustees under foreign wills and prior to the date upon which the will was admitted to probate in Iowa or prior to the expiration of three months after the recording of a duly authenticated copy of the will, original record of appointment, qualification, and bond, and in which the will was, subsequent to the conveyance, probated in Iowa, and in which a duly authenticated copy of the will, original record of appointment, qualification, and bond was, subsequent to the conveyance, made a matter of record as provided in those sections, are legalized and valid in law and in equity as though the will had been probated in Iowa prior to the conveyance. However, this section does not affect pending litigation.
[S13, §3295-c; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10401; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.18]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §15; 91 Acts, ch 183, §25

Structure Iowa Code

Iowa Code

Title XIV - PROPERTY

Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY

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.

Section 589.30 - Establishment of ancient county roads.

Section 589.31 - City and county deeds.