Iowa Code
Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY
Section 589.8 - Mortgages, trust deeds and realty liens — releases.

589.8 Mortgages, trust deeds and realty liens — releases.
A release or satisfaction of a mortgage or trust deed, or of an instrument in writing creating a lien upon real estate where the release or satisfaction has been recorded in the recorder’s office of the county in this state, or upon the margin of the record, where the original instrument was recorded and which release or satisfaction was made by an individual, association, partnership, assignee, corporation, attorney in fact, or by a resident or foreign executor, administrator, referee, receiver, trustee, guardian, or commissioner, and which release or satisfaction was executed, filed, and recorded more than ten years earlier, is valid, legal and binding, any defects in the execution, acknowledgment, recording, filing, or otherwise of the releases or satisfactions to the contrary notwithstanding.
[S13, §2938-b; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10391; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.8]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §7; 91 Acts, ch 183, §17; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §106

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.