# Iowa Code § 589.6: Instruments affecting real estate

> Iowa · Statutes · In force

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.6

## Section

- **Citation:** Iowa Code § 589.6
- **Heading:** Instruments affecting real estate
- **Jurisdiction:** Iowa
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** IA Code / Title XIV / Chapter 589 / Section 589.6

## Text

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.

[S13, §3068-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10389; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.6]84 Acts, ch 1090, §6; 91 Acts, ch 183, §16; 96 Acts, ch 1154, §9; 97 Acts, ch 23, §74

## 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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