558.1 “Instruments affecting real estate” defined — revocation. All instruments containing a power to convey, or in any manner relating to real estate, including certified copies of petitions in bankruptcy with or without the schedules appended, of decrees of adjudication in bankruptcy, and of orders approving trustees’ bonds in bankruptcy, and a jobs training agreement […]
558.10 Patents covering land in different counties. Where the certificate of the secretary of the interior or the patents cover real estate situated in more than one county, the secretary of state shall, upon the application of any railroad company or its grantee, prepare and furnish, to be recorded, a list of all the real […]
558.11 Record — constructive notice. The evidence of title shall be filed with the recorder of deeds of the county in which the real estate is situated, who shall record the same, and place an abstract thereof upon the index of deeds. The recording thereof shall be constructive notice to all persons, as provided in […]
558.12 Transcript of instruments. A person interested in a parcel of real estate may procure from a county recorder in this state a transcript of any instrument affecting real estate which is of record in that recorder’s office. The transcript shall be certified by the recorder. [S13, §2938-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10077; C46, […]
558.13 Transcript recorded. A transcript of the record of any instrument affecting real estate, certified as provided in section 558.12, shall be entitled to record in the office of the recorder of any other county in which is situated any of the real estate affected by such instrument. The effect of the recording of transcript […]
558.14 Grantor described as “spouse” or “heir” — presumption. All conveyances or the record title thereof of real estate executed more than ten years earlier, wherein the grantor or grantors described themselves as the surviving spouse, heir at law, heirs at law, surviving spouse and heir at law, or surviving spouse and heirs at law, […]
558.15 Official stamps of nonresident public notaries — presumption. Any official stamp purporting to have been affixed to any instrument in writing, by any notary public as provided in chapter 9B residing elsewhere than in this state, shall be prima facie evidence that the words thereon engraved conform to the requirements of the law of […]
558.18 Certification — effect. When any such records are copied, the officer to whose office the original records belong shall compare the copy so made with the original, and when found correct, shall attach the officer’s certificate in each volume or book of such copied records, to the effect that the officer has compared such […]
558.19 Forms of conveyance. The following or other equivalent forms of conveyance, varied to suit circumstances, are sufficient for the purposes herein contemplated: 1. For a quitclaim deed. For the consideration of ……………. dollars, I hereby quitclaim to ………………………….. all my interest in the following tract of real estate (describing it). 2. For a deed […]
558.1A Definition. Repealed by 2003 Acts, ch 44, §113 .
558.1B Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Book”, “list”, “record”, or “schedule” kept by a county auditor, assessor, treasurer, recorder, sheriff, or other county officer means the county system as defined in section 445.1. 2. “Grantee” means the name of the transferee in the transaction used to create the […]
558.2 Corporation having seal. In the execution of any written instrument conveying, encumbering, or affecting real estate by a corporation that has adopted a corporate seal, the seal of such corporation may but need not be attached or affixed to such written instrument. [C51, §974; R60, §1823; C73, §2112; C97, §3068; S13, §3068; C24, 27, […]
558.20 Acknowledgments. The acknowledgment of any deed, conveyance, or other instrument in writing by which real estate in this state is conveyed or encumbered, whether made within this state, outside this state, outside the United States, or under federal authority, shall comply with the provisions of chapter 9B. [C51, §1217; R60, §2226; C73, §1955; C97, […]
558.21 Repealed by 2004 Acts, ch 1052, §10 . See §558.20.
558.22 Repealed by 2004 Acts, ch 1052, §10 . See §558.20.
558.23 Repealed by 2004 Acts, ch 1052, §10 . See §558.20.
558.24 Repealed by 2004 Acts, ch 1052, §10 . See §558.20.
558.25 Repealed by 2004 Acts, ch 1052, §10 . See §558.20.
558.26 Repealed by 2004 Acts, ch 1052, §10 . See §558.20.
558.27 Repealed by 2004 Acts, ch 1052, §10 . See §558.20.
