589.5 Acknowledgments by stockholders.
All deeds and conveyances of lands within this state executed more than ten years earlier, but which have been acknowledged or proved according to and in compliance with the laws of this state before a notarial officer as provided in chapter 9B who was, at the time of the acknowledgment, an officer or stockholder of a corporation interested in the deed or conveyance, or otherwise interested in the deeds or conveyances, are, if otherwise valid, valid in law as though acknowledged or proved before an officer not interested in the deeds or conveyances; and if recorded more than ten years earlier, in the respective counties in which the lands are, the records are valid in law as though the deeds and conveyances, so acknowledged or proved and recorded, had, prior to being recorded, been acknowledged or proved before a notarial officer having no interest in the deeds or conveyances.
[S13, §2942-d; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10388; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.5]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §5; 91 Acts, ch 183, §15; 2012 Acts, ch 1050, §52, 60; 2013 Acts, ch 140, §101; 2014 Acts, ch 1092, §131
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.