448.3  Execution and effect of deed.

The deed shall be signed by the county treasurer as such, and acknowledged by the treasurer before some officer authorized to take acknowledgments, and when substantially thus executed and recorded in the proper record in the office of the recorder of the county in which the parcel is situated, shall vest in the purchaser all the right, title, interest, and claim of the state and county to the parcel, and all the right, title, interest, and estate of the former owner in and to the parcel conveyed. However, the deed is subject to all restrictive covenants, resulting from prior conveyances in the chain of title to the former owner, and subject to all the right and interest of a holder of a certificate of purchase from a tax sale occurring after the tax sale for which the deed was issued. The issuance of the deed shall operate to cancel all suspended taxes.

Section History: Early form

  [C51, § 503; R60, § 784; C73, § 897; C97, § 1444; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 7286; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 448.3]

Section History: Recent form

  91 Acts, ch 191, §102; 95 Acts, ch 57, §22; 97 Acts, ch 121, §25

Internal References

  Referred to in § 420.244


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