589.6  Instruments affecting real estate.

All instruments in writing executed by a corporation before July 1, 1996, which are more than one year old, conveying, encumbering, or affecting real estate, including releases or satisfactions of mortgages, judgments, or any other liens by entry of the release or satisfaction upon the page where the lien appears recorded or entered, where the corporate seal of the corporation has not been affixed or attached, and which are otherwise legally and properly executed, are legal, valid, and binding as though the corporate seal had been attached or affixed.

Section History: Early form

  [S13, § 3068-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 10389; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 589.6]

Section History: Recent form

  84 Acts, ch 1090, § 6; 91 Acts, ch 183, §16; 96 Acts, ch 1154, § 9; 97 Acts, ch 23, §74


Previous Section 589.5

Next Section 589.7


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/2003/589/6.html
jhf