589.6 Instruments affecting real estate.
All instruments in writing executed by a corporation before July 1, 1996, which are more than one year old, conveying, encumbering, or affecting real estate, including releases or satisfactions of mortgages, judgments, or any other liens by entry of the release or satisfaction upon the page where the lien appears recorded or entered, where the corporate seal of the corporation has not been affixed or attached, and which are otherwise legally and properly executed, are legal, valid, and binding as though the corporate seal had been attached or affixed.
[S13, §3068-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10389; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.6]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §6; 91 Acts, ch 183, §16; 96 Acts, ch 1154, §9; 97 Acts, ch 23, §74
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.