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Iowa Code § 558.1 (2026)

“Instruments affecting real estate” defined — revocation

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All instruments containing a power to convey, or in any manner relating to real estate, including certified copies of petitions in bankruptcy with or without the schedules appended, of decrees of adjudication in bankruptcy, and of orders approving trustees’ bonds in bankruptcy, and a jobs training agreement entered into under chapter 260E between an employer and community college which contains a description of the real estate affected, shall be held to be “instruments affecting real estate”. An instrument affecting real estate, when acknowledged or certified and recorded as in this chapter prescribed, cannot be revoked as to third parties by any act of the parties by whom it was executed, until the instrument containing such revocation is acknowledged and filed for record in the same office in which the instrument containing such power is recorded, except that uniform

Tue Dec 09 22:01:10 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 558 (51, 0) §558.1, CONVEYANCES 2\n\ncommercial code financing statements and financing statement changes as provided in chapter 554 need not be thus acknowledged. [C51, §1226; R60, §2234; C73, §1969; C97, §2957; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10066; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §558.1] 93 Acts, ch 180, §90; 2005 Acts, ch 3, §96; 2014 Acts, ch 1132, §34; 2015 Acts, ch 30, §175 Referred to in §9B.2, 554E.4, 558A.1

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 5 cases, 1977–2000 · leading case: Fed. Land Bank v. Terpstra (In Re Porter), 90 B.R. 399 (N.D. Iowa 1988).

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Fed. Land Bank v. Terpstra (In Re Porter), 90 B.R. 399 (N.D. Iowa 1988). · cites it 4× “Iowa Code § 558.1 defines instruments affecting real estate as “all instruments .”

In Re Waters, 90 B.R. 946 (Bankr. D. Iowa 1988). · cites it 2× “” The District Court concluded that Iowa Code §§ 558.1 & .41 were applicable and therefore, the filing of the instrument with the office of the county recorder where the land is situated perfects the interest.”

Lovlie v. Plumb, 250 N.W.2d 56 (Iowa 1977). “Even more importantly, defendants’ August 19, 1968, record filing of their reversionary based re-entry affidavit sufficed as constructive notice thereof to plaintiffs.”

Glenn v. Diabetes Treatment Centers of Am., Inc., 116 F. Supp. 2d 1098 (S.D. Iowa 2000). · cites it 2× “; (2) violation of the Iowa Competition Law, Iowa Code § 558.1 et seq.; and (3) a common law claim of tortious interference with a prospective contractual relationship.”

Hollinrake v. Fed. Land Bank (In Re Hollinrake), 93 B.R. 183 (Bankr. S.D. Iowa 1988). · cites it 2× “In resorting to section 558.1, the court reasoned: Notice is the essence of perfection.”

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