# Iowa Code § 589.8: Mortgages, trust deeds and realty liens — releases

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URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXIV_C589_S589.8

## Section

- **Citation:** Iowa Code § 589.8
- **Heading:** Mortgages, trust deeds and realty liens — releases
- **Jurisdiction:** Iowa
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** IA Code / Title XIV / Chapter 589 / Section 589.8

## Text

A release or satisfaction of a mortgage or trust deed, or of an instrument in writing creating a lien upon real estate where the release or satisfaction has been recorded in the recorder’s office of the county in this state, or upon the margin of the record, where the original instrument was recorded and which release or satisfaction was made by an individual, association, partnership, assignee, corporation, attorney in fact, or by a resident or foreign executor, administrator, referee, receiver, trustee, guardian, or commissioner, and which release or satisfaction was executed, filed, and recorded more than ten years earlier, is valid, legal and binding, any defects in the execution, acknowledgment, recording, filing, or otherwise of the releases or satisfactions to the contrary notwithstanding.

[S13, §2938-b; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10391; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §589.8]84 Acts, ch 1090, §7; 91 Acts, ch 183, §17; 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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