2009 Iowa Code
Title 15 - Judicial Branch and Judicial Procedures
Subtitle 3 - Civil Procedure
CHAPTER 614 - LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS
614.31 - FORTY-YEAR CHAIN OF TITLE.

        614.31  FORTY-YEAR CHAIN OF TITLE.
         Any person who has an unbroken chain of title of record to any
      interest in land for forty years or more, shall be deemed to have a
      marketable record title to such interest as defined in section
      614.29, subject only to the matters stated in section 614.32.  A
      person shall be deemed to have such an unbroken chain of title when
      the official public records disclose a conveyance or other title
      transaction, of record not less than forty years at the time the
      marketability is to be determined, which said conveyance or other
      title transaction purports to create such interest, either in:
         1.  The person claiming such interest, or
         2.  Some other person from whom, by one or more conveyances or
      other title transactions of record, such purported interest has
      become vested in the person claiming such interest; with nothing
      appearing of record, in either case, purporting to divest such
      claimant of such purported interest.  

         [C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 614.31]
         Referred to in § 257B.28, 455I.9, 457A.2, 614.29, 614.30