Iowa · statute · Iowa Code ch. 539 · 6 active provisions
Bonds, due bills, and all instruments by which the maker promises to pay another, without words of negotiability, a sum of money, or by which the maker promises to pay a sum of money in property or labor, or to pay or deliver any property or labor, or acknowledges any money, labor, or property to be due, are assignable…
When by the terms of an instrument its assignment is prohibited, an assignment thereof shall nevertheless be valid, but the maker may make use of any defense or counterclaim against the assignee which the maker may have against any assignor thereof before notice of such assignment is given to the maker in writing. In c…
An open account of sums of money due on contract may be assigned. The assignee, including a person who takes assignment for collection in the regular course of business, has a right of action on the account in the assignee’s own name, subject to the defenses and counterclaims allowed against the instruments mentioned i…
No sale or assignment, by the head of a family, of wages, whether the same be exempt from execution or not, shall be of any validity whatever unless the same be evidenced by a written instrument, and if married, unless the husband and wife sign and acknowledge the same joint instrument before an officer authorized to t…
Assignments of wages shall have priority and precedence in the order in which notice in writing of such assignments shall be given to the employer, and not otherwise.
The assignor of any of the above instruments not negotiable shall be liable to the action of the assignee without notice.