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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]