Where an occupant of real estate has color of title thereto and has in good faith made valuable improvements thereon, and is thereafter adjudged not to be the owner, no execution shall issue to put the owner of the land in possession of the same, after the filing of a petition as hereinafter provided, until the provisions of this chapter have been complied with.
Iowa Code § 560.1
Right to improvements
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case In the Matter of the Estate of Glen A. Waterman, Jingles Ti-Okay Waterman (2014)
Most recently applied in Gary N. Porter and Lori Porter v. Richard L. Harden and Janice Harden (March 2017)
[C51, §1233; R60, §2264; C73, §1976; C97, §2964; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10128; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §560.1]
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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