589.24 Defective instruments. A deed of conveyance, or other instrument purporting to convey real estate within the state, where the deed or instrument has been recorded in the office of the recorder of anycounty in which the real estate is situated, and the deed or instrument was executed by acounty treasurer under a tax sale, a sheriff under execution sale, or by a resident or foreignexecutor, administrator, referee, receiver, trustee, guardian, commissioner, individual,partnership, association, or corporation, and was executed and recorded more than tenyears earlier, and if the grantee named in the deed or conveyance, or other instrument, orthe grantee’s heirs or devisees, by direct line of title or conveyance have been in the actual,open, adverse possession of the premises since that date, is legalized, valid, and binding,notwithstanding defects in the execution of the deed or instrument. [S13, §2963-c; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10406; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.24] 84 Acts, ch 1090, §19; 91 Acts, ch 183, §29; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §106 Sat Dec 23 11:09:05 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 589.24 (16, 0)
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