2009 Iowa Code
Title 15 - Judicial Branch and Judicial Procedures
Subtitle 3 - Civil Procedure
CHAPTER 614 - LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS
614.17 - CLAIMS TO REAL ESTATE ANTEDATING 1980.

        614.17  CLAIMS TO REAL ESTATE ANTEDATING 1980.
         1.  An action based upon a claim arising or existing prior to
      January 1, 1980, shall not be maintained, either at law or in equity,
      in any court to recover real estate in this state or to recover or
      establish any interest in or claim to real estate, legal or
      equitable, against the holder of the record title to the real estate
      in possession, when the holder of the record title and the holder's
      immediate or remote grantors are shown by the record to have held
      chain of title to the real estate, since January 1, 1980, unless the
      claimant in person, or by the claimant's attorney or agent, or if the
      claimant is a minor or under legal disability, by the claimant's
      guardian, trustee, or either parent, within one year from and after
      July 1, 1991, files in the office of the recorder of deeds of the
      county in which the real estate is situated, a statement in writing,
      which is duly acknowledged, definitely describing the real estate
      involved, the nature and extent of the right or interest claimed, and
      stating the facts upon which the claim is based.
         2.  For the purposes of this section, section 614.17A, and
      sections 614.18 to 614.20, a person who holds title to real estate by
      will or descent from a person who held the title of record to the
      real estate at the date of that person's death or who holds title by
      decree or order of a court, or under a tax deed, trustee's,
      referee's, guardian's, executor's, administrator's, receiver's,
      assignee's, master's in chancery, or sheriff's deed, holds chain of
      title the same as though holding by direct conveyance.
         3.  For the purposes of this section and section 614.17A, such
      possession of real estate may be shown of record by affidavits
      showing the possession, and when the affidavits have been filed and
      recorded, it is the duty of the recorder to index the applicable
      entries specified in sections 558.49 and 558.52 and to index the name
      of the owner in possession, as named in the affidavits, and in like
      manner, the affidavits may be filed and recorded where any action was
      barred on any claim by this section as in force prior to July 1,
      1991.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 11024; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71,
      73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 614.17] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         91 Acts, ch 183, §36; 2007 Acts, ch 101, §5
         Referred to in § 614.17A, 614.19, 614.20