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Iowa Code § 626.21 (2026)

Choses in action

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Judgments, money, bank bills, and other things in action may be levied upon, and sold or appropriated thereunder, and an assignment thereof by the officer shall have the same effect as if made by the defendant. [C51, §1893; R60, §3272; C73, §3046; C97, §3971; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11672; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §626.21]

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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 10 cases, 1957–2020 · leading case: Red Giant Oil Co. v. Lawlor, 528 N.W.2d 524 (Iowa 1995).
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Red Giant Oil Co. v. Lawlor, 528 N.W.2d 524 (Iowa 1995). · cites it 6× “Iowa Code § 626.21 (emphasis added). This is the remedy the plaintiff pursued in Stef- *534 fens.”
Larry D. Schaefer & Elaine M. Schaefer v. Dale L. Putnam, Putnam Law Off., & SMP, L.L.C., 841 N.W.2d 68 (Iowa 2013). · cites it 4× “The Schaefers argued the right to appeal was not subject to levy under Iowa Code section 626.21. Putnam resisted, arguing the right to appeal is like any other asset, and as such, is subject to execution.”
Citizens State Bank of Des Moines v. Hansen, 449 N.W.2d 388 (Iowa 1989). · cites it 16× “” See Iowa Code § 626.21 (authorizing the satisfaction of judgments by levy and sale of “things in action”).”
Kemin Indus., Inc. v. KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, 578 N.W.2d 212 (Iowa 1998). · cites it 2× “2d 410 (Iowa 1998) (recognizing that chose in action is property that may be transferred); Iowa Code § 626.21 (providing for the transfer of a chose in action in satisfaction of a judgment), that a negligent act destroying the chose satisfies the statutory definition of fault.”
Chrysler Credit Corp. v. Rosenberger, 512 N.W.2d 303 (Iowa 1994). · cites it 4× “Chrysler is attempting to levy on Doris’s federal claim against Chrysler and the others, and the question is whether it may legally do so.”
In Re Morales, 403 B.R. 629 (Bankr. D. Iowa 2009). · cites it 2× “” Iowa Code § 626.21 . At the hearing on Morales’s motion, GE likened Morales’s appeal to a chose in action.”
Beeghly v. Wilson, 152 F. Supp. 726 (N.D. Iowa 1957). · cites it 2× “* * * ” Section 626.21 of that Chapter provides as follows: “Judgments, money, bank bills, and other things in action may be levied upon, and sold or appropriated thereunder, and an assignment thereof by the officer shall have the same effect as if made by the defendant.”
Arbie Mineral Feed Co. v. Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co., 462 N.W.2d 677 (Iowa 1990). “; Code of Iowa § 626.21 (1989). A “chose in action” is the same thing as a “thing in action.”
Steffens v. Am. Stand. Ins. Co. of Wisconsin, 181 N.W.2d 174 (Iowa 1970). “But Iowa has adopted the broad form of statutory execution authorizing levy on choses in action, in Code, 1966, § 626.21: “Judgments, money, bank bills, and other things in action may be levied upon, and sold or appropriated thereunder, and an assignment thereof by the officer…”
Jefferie Scott Gray, Janice Gray, an J.G., as Successors in Interest to James Lee Hohenshell v. Michael B. Oliver, Oliver Law Firm, P.C. & Oliver Gravett Law Firm, P.C. (Iowa 2020). · cites it 3× “2d 303, 304 (Iowa 1994) (stating “a cause of action is one of the ‘other 8 things in action’ that may be” levied upon (quoting Iowa Code § 626.21 (1991))); Arbie Mineral Feed Co.”
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