558.6  Given names -- variation -- effect.

When there is a difference between the given names or initials in which title is taken, and the given names or initials of the grantor in a succeeding conveyance, and the surnames in both instances are written the same or sound the same, the conveyances or the record of them is presumptive evidence that the surname in the several conveyances and instruments refers to the same person.

Section History: Early form

  [S13, § 2963-k; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 10071; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 558.6]

Section History: Recent form

  84 Acts, ch 1067, § 46


Previous Section 558.5

Next Section 558.7


Return To Home index


© 2003 Cornell College and League of Women Voters of Iowa


Comments about this site or page? webmaster@legis.iowa.gov.
Please remember that the person listed above does not vote on bills. Direct all comments concerning legislation to State Legislators.

Last update: Tue Jan 28 13:52:42 CST 2003
URL: /DOCS/IACODE/2003/558/6.html
jhf