Iowa Code » Chapter 562A — UNIFORM RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT LAW

Iowa Code § 562A.3

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, Robert E. Boge, and the City of Dubuque
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Umeka Lewis v. John J. Jaeger, Robert E. Boge, and the City of Dubuque (2012) iowa · 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 (1987) iowa · 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, Frank Sories, and Amaris McCann v. Southgate Property Management, LLC (2017) iowa · 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 (2013) iowa · 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 (1996) iowa · 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, 2017 Daniel Kline, Frank Sories, and Amaris Mccann v. Southgate Property Management, LLC (2017) iowa · 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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