# Iowa Code § 589.4: Acknowledgments by corporation officers

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URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.4

## Section

- **Citation:** Iowa Code § 589.4
- **Heading:** Acknowledgments by corporation officers
- **Jurisdiction:** Iowa
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** IA Code / Title XIV / Chapter 589 / Section 589.4

## Text

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 notarial officer as provided in chapter 9B 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 notarial officers, 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.

[C39, §10387.1; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.4]84 Acts, ch 1090, §4; 91 Acts, ch 183, §14; 2012 Acts, ch 1050, §51, 60; 2013 Acts, ch 140, §100; 2014 Acts, ch 1092, §130

## 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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