589.23 Descriptions referring to defective plats.
The description of land in all instruments, conveyances, and encumbrances describing lots in or referring to plats of survey or to plats made by a county auditor, or by a county surveyor for the owner, and placed of record by a county recorder more than ten years earlier, are legalized, valid and binding.
[S13, §924-b; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10405; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.23]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §18; 91 Acts, ch 183, §28
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.