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2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 587 - JUDGMENTS AND DECREES LEGALIZED › Section 587.5 - Judgments or decrees respecting wills.

587.5 Judgments or decrees respecting wills.
No judgment or decree purporting to set aside any will or the provisions of any will, or to place any construction upon any will or terms of any will, or to aid in carrying out the provisions of any will, and no contract or agreement purporting to be a settlement of any suit or action to set aside any will or the terms of any will, or to place any construction upon any will or any of the terms thereof, shall be held ineffectual, void, or insufficient because the records fail to show proper service of notice on all parties interested, that persons under disability affected by the action were not properly served with notice or represented by guardian or guardian ad litem, either in suit, action, or in a settlement thereof, that all persons interested participated in the settlement, or that any other provisions of law had been complied with which are necessary to make a valid decree, judgment, or settlement; provided more than ten years had elapsed since the judgment, decree, contract, or agreement was filed, entered, or placed on record in the county where the real estate affected thereby is situated. Said decree, judgment, contract, or agreement shall be conclusive evidence of the right, title, or interest it purports to establish or adjudicate insofar as it affects the title to such real estate, and said proceedings therein are hereby made legal and effectual the same as though all provisions of law had been complied with in the obtaining of said decree, judgment, or execution of said contract or agreement, and any judgment, decree, contract, or agreement such as above described which is now of record less than ten years in the county in which the real estate is situated shall, at the expiration of ten years from date of filing, entering, or recording thereof, have the same force and effect as is above given to those now in effect more than ten years.
[S13, §2963-m; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10378; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §587.5]
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 587 - JUDGMENTS AND DECREES LEGALIZED › Section 587.6 - Judgments in probate by circuit courts.

587.6 Judgments in probate by circuit courts.
In all cases where matters or proceedings in probate have been heard by the circuit courts or judges outside the county in which such matters or proceedings were pending, and in all cases where orders and judgments in probate matters and proceedings have been made by the circuit courts and judges outside the county in which such proceeding or matter was pending, and where such hearing was had or order or judgment made within the circuit to which the county belonged in which such proceeding or matter was pending, such hearing, order, or judgment shall be held and deemed to be of the same validity and force and effect as if such hearing was had or such order or judgment was made within the county in which such proceeding or matter was pending, and all title and rights acquired under such orders and judgments shall be held and deemed to be of the same legal force and effect and to be as valid as if such order or judgment had been made within the county in which the proceeding or matter was pending.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10379; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §587.6]
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 587 - JUDGMENTS AND DECREES LEGALIZED › Section 587.7 - Judgments or decrees quieting title.

587.7 Judgments or decrees quieting title.
No existing judgment or decree quieting title to real estate as against defects arising prior to January 1, 1966, and purporting to sustain the record title shall be held ineffectual because of the failure to properly set out in the petition or notice the derivation or devolution of the interest of the unknown defendants, or on account of the failure of the record to show that such notice was approved by the court or that the same was published as directed by the court, or because of the failure of the record to show that an affidavit was filed by plaintiff showing that personal service could not be made on any defendant in the state of Iowa, or because of the failure of defense by a guardian ad litem for any defendant under legal disability, or where there was more than one tract of real estate described in the same petition and decree, or where the plaintiffs have no joint or common interest in the property or defects of title, or because of failure to comply with any other provision of law. All such decrees are hereby made legal and effectual the same as if all provisions of law had been complied with in obtaining them.
[S13, §2963-f; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10380; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §587.7]
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 587 - JUDGMENTS AND DECREES LEGALIZED › Section 587.8 - Decrees in general — affidavit of nonresidence.

587.8 Decrees in general — affidavit of nonresidence.
In all cases where decrees of court have been obtained prior to January 1, 1966, upon publication of notice before the filing of the affidavit of nonresidence, as provided by section 3534, Code of 1897, or section 11081, Codes of 1924, 1927, 1931, 1935, 1939 and
rule of civil procedure, number 60
, effective July 4, 1943, and the same have not been filed as provided by law, but have been filed during the time that the notice was being published, on which such decrees are based, are hereby legalized and such decrees shall have the same force and effect as though the affidavit of nonresidence, as provided in said section, was filed at the time of or prior to the first publication of such notice. All decrees so obtained, as aforesaid, are hereby legalized and held to have the same force and effect as though the affidavit of nonresidence had been filed, as by law required.
[S13, §3534-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10381; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §587.8]
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 587 - JUDGMENTS AND DECREES LEGALIZED › Section 587.9 - Decrees in general — affidavit of publication.

587.9 Decrees in general — affidavit of publication.
In all cases where decrees of court have been obtained prior to January 1, 1969, in which the proof of publication of the original notice has been made by the affidavit of the editor of the newspaper or the publisher, manager, cashier, or supervisor thereof in which such original notice was published, the same are hereby legalized and such decrees shall have the same force and effect as though the affidavit of the publisher or supervisor of the newspaper in which original notice was published had been filed as provided by section 3536, Code of 1897, or section 11085, Codes of 1924, 1927, 1931, 1935, 1939 and
rule of civil procedure, number 60
, Code 1946, that all decrees obtained as aforesaid are hereby legalized and held to have the same force and effect as though the proof of the publication on the original notice had been made by the affidavit of the publisher or supervisor of the newspaper in which such original notice was published.
[S13, §3536-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10382; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §587.9]
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 587 - JUDGMENTS AND DECREES LEGALIZED › Section 587.10 - Affidavit of publication of notice by assistant publisher.

587.10 Affidavit of publication of notice by assistant publisher.
All affidavits of proof of publication of any notice or original notice made by the assistant publisher of any newspaper of general circulation, which were executed and filed more than ten years earlier, are hereby legalized, declared valid, binding, and of full force and effect.
[C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §587.10]
91 Acts, ch 183, §10
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 587 - JUDGMENTS AND DECREES LEGALIZED › Section 587.11 - Annulment of marriages — service by publication.

587.11 Annulment of marriages — service by publication.
All decrees of the courts of this state made and entered of record in actions brought to annul a marriage in which the service of the original notice was made by publication in the manner provided by law for actions for divorce are hereby legalized and validated as fully and to the same extent as if the statute at the time such suit was instituted had provided for service of the original notice by publication in the time and manner aforesaid.
[S13, §3187-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10383; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §587.11]
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 587 - JUDGMENTS AND DECREES LEGALIZED › Section 587.12 - Service by publication under former rule 60.

587.12 Service by publication under former rule 60.
1. In all actions or in proceedings in probate where an order, judgment, or decree has been entered prior to July 1, 1970, based upon service of notice by publication as provided by
rule 60 of the Iowa rules of civil procedure, Code 1966
, or any statute authorizing publication of notice or upon service of notice by publication or posting pursuant to authorization or direction of any court of competent jurisdiction in the state of Iowa, all such orders, judgments, or decrees are hereby declared valid and of full force and effect, unless an action shall be commenced within the time provided in subsection 2 to question such order, judgment, or decree, or any right or status created, confirmed, or existing thereunder.
2. No action shall be maintained in any court to question any such order, judgment, or decree, or any right or status created, confirmed, or existing thereunder unless such action shall be commenced within one year from July 1, 1970.
3. The provisions of section 614.8 as to the rights of minors and persons with mental illness and any other provision of law fixing or extending the time within which actions may be commenced shall not be applicable to extend the time within which any such action shall be commenced beyond one year after July 1, 1970.
[C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §587.12]
96 Acts, ch 1129, §113; 2017 Acts, ch 29, §157; 2018 Acts, ch 1026, §165
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 588 - EXECUTION SALES › Section 588.1 - Failure to make proper entries.

588.1 Failure to make proper entries.
All execution sales heretofore had wherein the execution officer has failed to endorse on the execution the day and hour when received, the levy, sale, or other act done by virtue thereof, with the date thereof, the dates and amounts of any receipts or payment in satisfaction thereof at the time of the receipt or act done, or has failed to endorse thereon, an exact description of the property levied upon at length with the date of levy, be and the same are hereby legalized and declared to be legal and valid as if all of the provisions of laws as required by sections 11664 through 11668.1, Code 1939, had been in all respects strictly and fully complied with.
[C35, §10383-e1; C39, §10383.1; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §588.1]
2021 Acts, ch 76, §138
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 588 - EXECUTION SALES › Section 588.2 - Homestead selection — deficiency.

588.2 Homestead selection — deficiency.
All execution sales of real estate heretofore had in which the execution officer has failed to serve notice upon the titleholders in possession to select their homestead or has defectively served such notice or, having served such notice, has, upon the failure of defendants to select a homestead, neglected to plat the same or has defectively platted the same, or where said execution officer in such sales has offered the property en masse without first offering the same in the least legal subdivisions, or where said officer has failed to offer property, including the homestead, first separately in least legal subdivisions exclusive of homestead, then offering all property en masse, exclusive of the homestead, then offering the homestead separately, then offering all of the property for sale, en masse, be and the same are hereby legalized and declared to be legal and valid in all particulars as if all of the provisions of the law had been in all respects strictly and fully complied with at the time of said acts or said sales.
[C39, §10383.2; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §588.2]
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.1 - Acknowledgments — seal not affixed.

589.1 Acknowledgments — seal not affixed.
All deeds, mortgages, or other instruments in writing for the conveyance of lands which have been made and executed more than ten years earlier, and the officer taking the acknowledgment has not affixed the officer’s seal to the acknowledgment; the acknowledgment is, nevertheless, good and valid in law and equity, any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding.
[S13, §2942-h; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10384; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.1]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §1; 91 Acts, ch 183, §11
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.2 - Conveyances by county.

589.2 Conveyances by county.
All deeds executed more than ten years earlier, by a court or the chairperson of the board of supervisors of a county, and to which the officer executing the deed has failed or omitted to affix the county seal, and all deeds where the clerk has failed or omitted to countersign when required so to do, are legalized and valid as though the law had in all respects been fully complied with.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10385; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.2]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §2; 91 Acts, ch 183, §12
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.3 - Absence of or defective acknowledgments.

589.3 Absence of or defective acknowledgments.
Any instrument in writing affecting the title to real estate within the state of Iowa, to which is attached no certificate of acknowledgment, or to which is attached a defective certificate of acknowledgment, which was, more than ten years earlier, recorded or spread upon the records in the office of the recorder of the county in which the real estate described in the instrument is located, is, together with the recording and the record of the recording, valid, legal, and binding as if the instrument had been properly acknowledged and legally recorded.
[S13, SS15, §2963-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10386; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.3]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §3; 91 Acts, ch 183, §13
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.4 - Acknowledgments by corporation officers.

589.4 Acknowledgments by corporation officers.
The acknowledgments of all deeds, mortgages, or other instruments in writing taken or certified more than ten years earlier, which instruments have been recorded in the recorder’s office of any county of this state, including acknowledgments of instruments made by a corporation, or to which the corporation was a party, or under which the corporation was a beneficiary, and which have been acknowledged before or certified by a notarial officer as provided in chapter 9B who was at the time of the acknowledgment or certifying a stockholder or officer in the corporation, are legal and valid official acts of the notarial officers, and entitle the instruments to be recorded, anything in the laws of the state of Iowa in regard to acknowledgments to the contrary notwithstanding. This section does not affect pending litigation.
[C39, §10387.1; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.4]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §4; 91 Acts, ch 183, §14; 2012 Acts, ch 1050, §51, 60; 2013 Acts, ch 140, §100; 2014 Acts, ch 1092, §130
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.5 - Acknowledgments by stockholders.

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
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.6 - Instruments affecting real estate.

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
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › 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
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.9 - Marginal releases of school-fund mortgages.

589.9 Marginal releases of school-fund mortgages.
The release or satisfaction of a school-fund mortgage entered on the margin of the record of the mortgage by the auditor of the county more than ten years earlier, is legalized as though the auditor had, at the time of entering the release or satisfaction, the same power thereafter conferred upon the auditor by
1894 Iowa Acts, ch 53
.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10392; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.9]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §8; 91 Acts, ch 183, §18; 2005 Acts, ch 3, §99
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.10 - Marginal assignment of mortgage or lien.

589.10 Marginal assignment of mortgage or lien.
If an assignment of a mortgage or other recorded lien on real estate has been executed more than ten years earlier, by written assignment on the margin of the record where the mortgage or other lien is recorded or entered, the assignment passed all the right, title, and interest in the real estate, which the assignor at the time had, with like force and effect as if the assignment had been made by separate instrument duly acknowledged and recorded; and an assignment or a duly authenticated copy of an assignment when accompanied by a duly authenticated copy of the record of the instrument or lien it purports to assign, is admissible in evidence as provided by law for the admission of the records of deeds and mortgages.
[SS15, §2963-x2; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10393; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.10]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §9; 91 Acts, ch 183, §19
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.11 - Conveyances by fiduciaries.

589.11 Conveyances by fiduciaries.
If an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, assignee, receiver, referee, or commissioner, acting in that capacity in this or any state, has conveyed in the trust capacity real estate lying in this state and the conveyance has been of record for more than ten years, in the county where the real estate so conveyed is located and which conveyance purports to sustain the title in the present record owner, the conveyance is not void or insufficient because due and legal notice of all proceedings with reference to the making of the conveyance was not served upon all interested or necessary parties, or that the executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, assignee, receiver, referee, or commissioner is not shown to have been duly authorized by an order of court to make and execute the conveyance, that a bond was not given, or that a report of the sale was not made; or the sale or deed of conveyance was not approved by order of court, or a foreign executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, assignee, receiver, referee, or commissioner was not appointed or qualified in the state of Iowa prior to the making of the conveyance, or the record fails to disclose compliance with any law, and all such conveyances are valid, legal, and binding. Allotments by referees in partition are conveyances within the meaning of this section.
[S13, SS15, §2963-l; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10394; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.11]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §10; 91 Acts, ch 183, §20
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.12 - Sheriffs’ deeds.

589.12 Sheriffs’ deeds.
A sheriff’s deed executed more than ten years earlier which purports to sustain the record title is not ineffectual on account of the failure of the record to show that any of the steps in obtaining the judgment or in the sale of the property were complied with. The proceedings are legalized as if the record showed that the law has been complied with.
[S13, §2963-c; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10396; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.12]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §11; 91 Acts, ch 183, §21
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.13 - Sheriff’s deed executed by deputy.

589.13 Sheriff’s deed executed by deputy.
All conveyances of land in this state, executed in this state by a deputy sheriff, and properly recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county where the land is located, more than ten years earlier, have the same force and effect as though the conveyance had been executed by the sheriff.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10397; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.13]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §12; 91 Acts, ch 183, §22
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.14 - Defective tax deeds.

589.14 Defective tax deeds.
A tax deed executed more than ten years earlier which purports to sustain the record title, is not ineffectual because of the failure of the record to show that any of the steps in the sale and deeding of the property were complied with and these proceedings are legalized and valid as if the record showed that the law had been complied with.
[S13, §2963-o; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10398; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.14]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §13; 91 Acts, ch 183, §23
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.15 - Tax deeds legalized.

589.15 Tax deeds legalized.
That in all instances where tax deeds have been issued by county treasurers in the absence of the report and entry required by section 7283, Code 1939, or corresponding sections of earlier Codes relating to collection of costs of serving notices, such tax deeds shall not by reason of omission to make such report and entry be held invalid, but are hereby legalized. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as curing any other defect in tax deeds than that herein specifically described. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to affect pending litigation.
[C35, §10398-g1; C39, §10398.1; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.15]
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.16 - Tax sales legalized.

589.16 Tax sales legalized.
In all instances where a county treasurer heretofore conducted a tax sale at the time provided in section 7259, Code 1935, or section 7262, Code 1935, sales made at such tax sale or any adjournment thereof shall not be held invalid by reason of the failure of the county treasurer to have brought forward the delinquent tax of prior years upon the current tax lists in use by the said county treasurer at the time of conducting the sale, or by reason of the failure of the county treasurer to have offered all the property unsold before each adjournment of said sale and said tax sales are hereby legalized and declared valid notwithstanding the provisions of section 7193, Code 1935, and section 7259, Code 1935, provided the delinquent taxes for which the said real estate was sold had been brought forward upon the current tax list of the year preceding the year in which the said tax sale was conducted. Provided, however, that no tax sale so legalized and validated shall affect a special assessment if the same continues to remain a lien notwithstanding a tax deed now or hereafter issued pursuant to such tax sale.
[C39, §10398.2; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.16]
2014 Acts, ch 1026, §124
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.16A - Defect in tax sale proceeding.

589.16A Defect in tax sale proceeding.
An action shall not be commenced after July 1, 1987, which asserts a claim against any real estate sold at a tax sale, based upon any defect in the tax sale proceeding, including the inadequacy of the notice of tax sale or the inadequacy of the notice of the expiration of the redemption period, where the tax sale was made prior to July 1, 1986.
86 Acts, ch 1139, §10
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.17 - Conveyances by spouse under power.

589.17 Conveyances by spouse under power.
A conveyance of real estate executed more than ten years earlier, in which the husband or wife conveyed or contracted to convey the inchoate right of dower through the other spouse, acting as the attorney in fact, by virtue of a power of attorney executed by the spouse, the power of attorney not having been executed as a part of a contract of separation, are not invalid.
[S'02, §2942-f; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10399; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.17]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §14; 91 Acts, ch 183, §24
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › 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
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.19 - Conveyances under school-fund foreclosures.

589.19 Conveyances under school-fund foreclosures.
If the title to real estate has been conveyed more than ten years earlier, by the sheriff of a county pursuant to sheriff’s sale under the foreclosure of permanent school-fund mortgages to the state, or to the state for the use of the school fund, or to the county for the school fund; and the land has been sold under authority of the board of supervisors of the county and conveyed under its authority, more than ten years earlier, and the full purchase price paid and credited to, and used by, the county for the permanent school fund of the county, all right, title, or interest of the state in and to the real estate is relinquished and quitclaimed to the purchaser or the purchaser’s grantees forever, and the title confirmed in the purchaser, or the purchaser’s grantees insofar as the erroneous conveyance is concerned.
[C31, 35, §10401-c1; C39, §10401.1; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.19]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §16; 91 Acts, ch 183, §26
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.21 - Releases and discharges.

589.21 Releases and discharges.
All releases and discharges of judgments, mortgages, or deeds of trust affecting property in this state executed more than ten years earlier, by administrators, executors, or guardians appointed by the court of any other state or country are legalized, valid and effective in law and in equity. However, this section does not affect pending litigation.
[S13, §3308-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10403; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.21]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §17; 91 Acts, ch 183, §27
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.22 - Certain loans, contracts, and mortgages.

589.22 Certain loans, contracts, and mortgages.
All loans, contracts, and mortgages which are affected by the repeal of
1898 Iowa Acts, ch. 48
, are hereby legalized so far as to permit recovery to be had thereon for interest at the rate of eight percent per annum, but at no greater rate, and nothing contained in such contracts shall be construed to be usurious so as to work a forfeiture of any penalty to the school fund.
[S13, §1898-b; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10404; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.22]
2005 Acts, ch 3, §100; 2014 Acts, ch 1026, §143
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.23 - Descriptions referring to defective plats.

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
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.24 - Defective instruments.

589.24 Defective instruments.
A deed of conveyance, or other instrument purporting to convey real estate within the state, where the deed or instrument has been recorded in the office of the recorder of any county in which the real estate is situated, and the deed or instrument was executed by a county treasurer under a tax sale, a sheriff under execution sale, or by a resident or foreign executor, administrator, referee, receiver, trustee, guardian, commissioner, individual, partnership, association, or corporation, and was executed and recorded more than ten years earlier, and if the grantee named in the deed or conveyance, or other instrument, or the grantee’s heirs or devisees, by direct line of title or conveyance have been in the actual, open, adverse possession of the premises since that date, is legalized, valid, and binding, notwithstanding defects in the execution of the deed or instrument.
[S13, §2963-c; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10406; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.24]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §19; 91 Acts, ch 183, §29; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §106
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.25 - Sales of real estate by school district.

589.25 Sales of real estate by school district.
All deeds and conveyances of land executed by or purporting to be executed by a school district or by the board of directors of a school district, and placed of record more than ten years earlier, which deeds or conveyances purport to sustain the record title, are legalized and valid, even though the record fails to show that all necessary steps in the sale and deeding of the property were complied with. The deeds and conveyances are legalized and valid as if the record showed that the law had been complied with, and that the sales had been duly authorized by the electors of the school district.
[C58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.25]
84 Acts, ch 1090, §20; 91 Acts, ch 183, §30
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.26 - Land transfers by the department of human services legalized.

589.26 Land transfers by the department of human services legalized.
Every deed, release or other instrument in writing purporting to transfer any interest in land held or claimed by the department of human services or a predecessor agency, which is signed by a departmental official, and which was filed of record more than ten years earlier, in the office of the auditor or recorder or clerk of the district court of any county is legalized and shall be good and valid in law and in equity as fully as if the record expressly showed that it in all respects complied with and was fully authorized as provided in any statute pertaining to such instrument, any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding.
[C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.26]
91 Acts, ch 183, §31
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.27 - Condemnation by department of transportation.

589.27 Condemnation by department of transportation.
1. In any condemnation proceedings instituted by the state department of transportation and pending on or filed subsequent to January 1, 1968, in any court of the state, under chapter 6B, wherein the property owner has served a proper notice of appeal on the applicant for condemnation within the statutory period, but has failed to serve notice of appeal on a lienholder within the statutory period as required by section 6B.18, such failure shall not deprive the court of jurisdiction insofar as the property owner is concerned, unless a lienholder can show prejudice thereby, and in such instances the appeal, as it affects the property owner, is legalized and validated.
2. Any award of damages and judgment for costs, in any such proceeding, which has been set aside or vacated, by reason of the failure of the property owner to serve notice of appeal on a lienholder within the statutory period required under section 6B.18, shall be reinstated by the court where such award and judgment was entered after notice and hearing, as prescribed by the court, and after a finding that such lienholder will not be prejudiced thereby.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.27]
2021 Acts, ch 76, §150
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.28 - County surplus property — sale legalized.

589.28 County surplus property — sale legalized.
All proceedings taken by the board of supervisors of any county pertaining to the sale of any property which was no longer needed for the purpose for which it was acquired or any other county purpose and sold pursuant to section 331.361, where the board failed to offer such property for sale at a public auction on or after June 30, 1974 and on or before July 1, 1975 are validated, legalized, and confirmed and shall constitute a valid, legal, and binding sale of such property sold on or after June 30, 1974 and on or before July 1, 1975 by the board of supervisors of any county.
[C81, §589.28]
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.29 - Permission to lay water mains.

589.29 Permission to lay water mains.
The provisions of section 320.4, relating to the laying of water mains apply to all permits or permissions granted by a county board of supervisors or the state department of transportation and its predecessors before July 1, 1979 and are retroactive to that extent.
[82 Acts, ch 1165, §1]
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.30 - Establishment of ancient county roads.

589.30 Establishment of ancient county roads.
Effective January 1, 1993, the establishment of a county road pursuant to proceedings by a board of supervisors, in which the proceedings, plans, or plats were on file or recorded with the county auditor or county recorder prior to January 1, 1920, are not ineffectual because of the failure of the board of supervisors to comply with any of the steps necessary for the establishment of the road, and these proceedings are legalized and valid as if the record showed that the law had been complied with, unless the adjacent property owner, or an attorney, agent, guardian, conservator, trustee, or parent of a minor adjacent property owner, files in the office of the county recorder in the county where the property is located, a statement in writing, which is duly acknowledged, and which specifically describes the property involved, the nature and extent of the right of the interest claimed, and the nature of the alleged failure to comply with any of the steps necessary for the establishment of the road, on or before December 31, 1992.
92 Acts, ch 1169, §1
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 589 - REAL PROPERTY › Section 589.31 - City and county deeds.

589.31 City and county deeds.
All deeds and conveyances of land executed by or purporting to be executed by the governing body of a city or county, and placed of record more than ten years earlier, which deeds or conveyances purport to sustain the record title, are legalized and valid, even though the record fails to show that all necessary steps in the conveyance and deeding of the property were complied with. The deeds and conveyances are legalized and valid as if the record showed that the law had been complied with, and that the conveyances and deeding had been duly authorized by the governing body of the city or county.
97 Acts, ch 156, §1
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 590 - WILLS › Section 590.1 - Notice of appointment of executors.

590.1 Notice of appointment of executors.
1. In all instances prior to January 1, 1964, where executors or administrators have failed to publish notice of their appointment as required by section 3304, Code of 1897, and section 11890, Codes of 1924 through 1939, and section 633.46, Codes 1946 through 1962, but have published a notice of appointment, such notice of appointment is hereby legalized and shall have the same force and effect as though the same had been published as directed by the court or clerk.
2. In all instances where more than five years have passed since the appointment of a personal representative or probate of a will without administration, where administrators have failed to publish notice of their appointment as required by section 633.230, and executors have failed to publish a notice of admission of the will to probate and their appointment as required by sections 633.304 and 633.305, but have published a notice of appointment or notice of admission of the will to probate and of the appointment of the executor, such notice of appointment or notice of admission of the will to probate and of the appointment of the executor, is hereby legalized and shall have the same force and effect as though the same had been published as required.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10407; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §590.1]
2021 Acts, ch 76, §139
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 590 - WILLS › Section 590.2 - Notice of hearing in probate.

590.2 Notice of hearing in probate.
In all instances prior to January 1, 1964, where the clerk of the district court of any county failed to publish notice of the time fixed for hearing of the probate of any will filed in such county as required by section 11865 of the Code [1924 through 1939], and section 633.20, Codes 1946 through 1962, but did publish a notice of the time fixed for such hearing signed by the clerk and addressed to whom it may concern in a daily or weekly newspaper printed in the county where the will was filed, such notice of time fixed for the hearing of the probate of such will is hereby legalized and shall have the same force and effect as though the same had been published in strict conformity with the requirements of said section.
[C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §590.2]
2022 Acts, ch 1032, §98
Section amended
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 591 - CORPORATIONS LEGALIZED › Section 591.1 - Defective publication.

591.1 Defective publication.
Corporations heretofore incorporated under the laws of the state which have caused notice of their incorporation to be published once each week for four consecutive weeks in some daily, semiweekly or triweekly newspaper, instead of causing the same to be published in each issue of such newspaper for four consecutive weeks, are hereby legalized and are declared legal incorporations the same as though the law had been complied with in all respects in regard to the publication of notice.
[S13, §1613-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10408; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §591.1]
Referred to in §591.12
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 591 - CORPORATIONS LEGALIZED › Section 591.2 - Publication after required time.

591.2 Publication after required time.
In all instances where the incorporators of corporations organized in this state for pecuniary profit have omitted to publish notice of such incorporation within three months after the date of the certificates of incorporation issued by the secretary of state, but did publish such notices thereafter in the manner and form as required by law, such notices of incorporation are hereby legalized and shall have the same force and effect as though published within said period of three months.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10409; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §591.2]
Referred to in §591.12
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 591 - CORPORATIONS LEGALIZED › Section 591.3 - Filing of renewals after required time.

591.3 Filing of renewals after required time.
In all instances where proper action has been taken prior to July 1, 1959, by the stockholders for renewal of any corporation for pecuniary profit and the certificates showing such proceedings, together with the articles of incorporation, have been filed and recorded in the office of the county recorder and later in the office of the secretary of state, or have been filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state and later in the office of the county recorder, although there has been failure to file such certificates and articles of incorporation in either or both of the said offices within the time specified therefor by law, such renewals are hereby legalized and shall be held to have the same force and effect as though the filings of the said documents in the said offices had been made within the periods prescribed by statute.
[SS15, §1618-1a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10410; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §591.3]
Referred to in §591.12
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 591 - CORPORATIONS LEGALIZED › Section 591.4 - Defective notice or acknowledgment, etc.

591.4 Defective notice or acknowledgment, etc.
In all instances where the incorporators of corporations organized in the state prior to January 1, 1959, have failed to publish notices of such incorporation within three months from and after the date of the certificates of incorporation issued by the secretary of state, but did publish such notices within three months after the date required by law in such cases in manner and form as required by law, and in all instances where the number of incorporators or the signatures or acknowledgment thereof were less than the number required by law, or the articles of incorporation were otherwise defective, but where the corporation or association has thereafter been conducted with the requisite number of stockholders or members, such notices of incorporation and the incorporation of corporations or associations so defectively incorporated are in each and every case hereby legalized and all the corporate acts of all such corporations and associations are hereby legalized in all respects.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10411; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §591.4]
Referred to in §591.12
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 591 - CORPORATIONS LEGALIZED › Section 591.5 - Notices of incorporation.

591.5 Notices of incorporation.
In all instances where the incorporators of corporations for pecuniary profit have omitted to publish notice of incorporation within three months from the date of the certificate of incorporation issued by the secretary of state, but have published notice thereafter in manner and form as by law required, such notices are hereby legalized and shall have the same force and effect as though published within said period of three months, as to all acts of said corporation from the date of said completed publication.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10412; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §591.5]
Referred to in §591.12
2023 Iowa Code › Title XIV - PROPERTY › Chapter 591 - CORPORATIONS LEGALIZED › Section 591.6 - Amended articles and change of name.

591.6 Amended articles and change of name.
Any corporation, organized under chapter 2 of Title IX, Code of 1897, or chapter 394, Codes of 1924, 1927, 1931, 1935 and 1939, or chapter 504, Codes of 1946, 1950, 1954 and 1958, which shall have heretofore adopted articles of incorporation or changed its name or amended its articles, and some question has arisen as to whether such articles, change in name or amendment was adopted by a majority of the members of such corporation as required by section 1651, Code of 1897, and section 8593, Codes of 1924, 1927, 1931, 1935 and 1939, and section 504.19, Codes of 1946, 1950, 1954 and 1958, and such corporation shall have been engaged in the exercise of its corporate functions for the period of at least three years, such articles, change in name or amendment shall be held and considered to have been duly adopted by a majority of all the members of such corporation and are hereby legalized and made valid.
[S13, §1642-b; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10413; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §591.6]
Referred to in §591.12