§ 614.29 — Definitions

Iowa § 614.29

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title XV: JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES
• Ch. 614: LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS

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As used in this chapter:
1. “Marketable record title” means a title of record, as indicated in section 614.31, which
operates to extinguish such interests and claims, existing prior to the effective date of the
root of title, as are stated in section 614.33.
2. “Records” includes probate and other official public records, as well as records in the
office of the county recorder.
3. “Recording”, when applied to the official public records of a probate or other court,
includes filing.
4. “Person dealing with the land” includes a purchaser of any estate or interest therein,
a mortgagee, a levying or attaching creditor, a land contract vendee, or any other person,
corporation,orentityseekingtoacquireanestateorinteresttherein,orimposealienthereon.
5. “Root of title” means that conveyance or other title transaction or other link in the chain
of title of a person, purporting to create the interest claimed by such person, upon which
the person relies as a basis for the marketability of the person’s title, and which was the
most recent to be recorded or established as of a date forty years prior to the time when
marketability is being determined. The effective date of the “root of title” is the date on which
it is recorded.
6. “Titletransaction”meansanytransactionaffectingtitletoanyinterestinland,including
title by will or descent, title by tax deed, or deed by trustee, referee, guardian, executor,
administrator, master in chancery, sheriff, or any other form of deed or decree of any court,
as well as warranty deed, quitclaim deed, mortgage, or transfer or conveyance of any kind.

Legislative History

[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §614.29]