2009 Iowa Code
Title 14 - Property
Subtitle 2 - Real Property - Gifts
CHAPTER 558 - CONVEYANCES
558.31 - PROOF OF EXECUTION AND DELIVERY IN LIEU OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

        558.31  PROOF OF EXECUTION AND DELIVERY IN LIEU OF
      ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
         Proof of the due and voluntary execution and delivery of a deed or
      other instrument may be made before any officer authorized to take
      acknowledgments, by one competent person other than the vendee or
      other person to whom the instrument is executed, in the following
      cases:
         1.  If the grantor dies before making the acknowledgment.
         2.  If the grantor's attendance cannot be procured.
         3.  If, having appeared, the grantor refuses to acknowledge the
      execution of the instrument.  

         [C51, § 1220, 1221; R60, § 2228; C73, § 1959; C97, § 2949; C24,
      27, 31, 35, 39, § 10095; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77,
      79, 81, § 558.31]