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 notary public 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 notaries public, 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.

Section History: Early form

  [C39, § 10387.1; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 589.4]

Section History: Recent form

  84 Acts, ch 1090, § 4; 91 Acts, ch 183, §14


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