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Code · Iowa · Chapter 677 — Offer To Confess Judgment

677.1 Offer to confess before action brought.

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Before an action for the recovery of money is brought against any person, the person may go before the clerk of the county of the person’s residence, or of that in which the person having the cause of action resides, and offer to confess judgment in favor of such person for a specified sum on such cause of action, as provided for in chapter 676.
[R60, §3403; C73, §2898; C97, §3817; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12672; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §677.1]
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