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Iowa Code § 562A.3 (2026)

Supplementary principles of law applicable

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Unless displaced by the provisions of this chapter, the principles of law and equity in this state, including the law relating to capacity to contract, mutuality of obligations, principal and agent, real property, public health, safety and fire prevention, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, bankruptcy, or other validating or invalidating cause, shall supplement its provisions. [C79, 81, §562A.3]

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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases, 1987–2017 · leading case: Umeka Lewis v. John J. Jaeger, 818 N.W.2d 165 (Iowa 2012).
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Umeka Lewis v. John J. Jaeger, 818 N.W.2d 165 (Iowa 2012). · cites it 7× “Iowa Code § 562A.3 (emphasis added). Housing codes, and their enforcement mechanisms, certainly relate to public health, safety, and fire prevention.”
Whitehorn v. Lovik, 398 N.W.2d 851 (Iowa 1987). · cites it 4× “Nevertheless, we cannot square Whitehorn's argument with a further section of the landlord tenant law which provides: Unless displaced by the provisions of this chapter, the principles of law and equity in this state, including the law relating to capacity to contract, mutuality…”
Daniel Kline v. Southgate Prop. Mgmt., LLC, 895 N.W.2d 429 (Iowa 2017). · cites it 2× “§ 562A.3. Although chapter 562A imposes some specific restraints on the content of residential rental agreements, the statute does not completely displace freedom of contract.”
Crawford v. Yotty, 828 N.W.2d 295 (Iowa 2013). · cites it 2× “Thus, under our common law, the duties a landlord owes to a tenant extend to the visitors of the tenant, at least in regard to common areas.”
D.R. Mobile Home Rentals v. Frost, 545 N.W.2d 302 (Iowa 1996). · cites it 2× “Section 562A.3 of the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act provides that “[u]nless displaced by the provisions of this chapter, the principles of law and equity in this state .”
Amended August 1 v. Southgate Prop. Mgmt., LLC, No. 15–1350 (Iowa May 19, 2017). · cites it 2× “§ 562A.3. Although chapter 562A imposes some specific restraints on the content of residential rental agreements, the statute does not completely displace freedom of contract.”
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