# Iowa Code § 589.24: Defective instruments

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URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.24

## Section

- **Citation:** Iowa Code § 589.24
- **Heading:** Defective instruments
- **Jurisdiction:** Iowa
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** IA Code / Title XIV / Chapter 589 / Section 589.24

## Text

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 any county in which the real estate is situated, and the deed or instrument was executed by a county treasurer under a tax sale, a sheriff under execution sale, or by a resident or foreign executor, administrator, referee, receiver, trustee, guardian, commissioner, individual, partnership, association, or corporation, and was executed and recorded more than ten years earlier, and if the grantee named in the deed or conveyance, or other instrument, or the 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

## Nearby sections

- [Iowa Code § 589.1 Acknowledgments — seal not affixed.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.1.md)
- [Iowa Code § 589.2 Conveyances by county.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.2.md)
- [Iowa Code § 589.3 Absence of or defective acknowledgments.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.3.md)
- [Iowa Code § 589.4 Acknowledgments by corporation officers.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.4.md)
- [Iowa Code § 589.5 Acknowledgments by stockholders.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.5.md)
- [Iowa Code § 589.6 Instruments affecting real estate.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.6.md)
- [Iowa Code § 589.8 Mortgages, trust deeds and realty liens — releases.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.8.md)
- [Iowa Code § 589.9 Marginal releases of school-fund mortgages.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.9.md)
- [Iowa Code § 589.10 Marginal assignment of mortgage or lien.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.10.md)
- [Iowa Code § 589.11 Conveyances by fiduciaries.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.11.md)
- [Iowa Code § 589.12 Sheriffs’ deeds.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.12.md)
- [Iowa Code § 589.13 Sheriff’s deed executed by deputy.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.13.md)
- [Iowa Code § 589.14 Defective tax deeds.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.14.md)
- [Iowa Code § 589.15 Tax deeds legalized.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.15.md)

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