680.4  Powers.
  Subject to the control of the court, a receiver has power to bring and defend actions, to take and keep possession of property, to collect debts, to receive the rents and profits of real property, and, generally, to do such acts in respect to the property committed to the receiver as may be authorized by law or ordered by the court.
[C51, §1658; R60, §3421; C73, §2905; C97, §3824; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12716; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §680.4]