Terms Used In Iowa Code 602.6106

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • clerk: means clerk of the court in which the action or proceeding is brought or is pending; and the words "clerk's office" mean the office of that clerk. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Records: includes probate and other official public records, as well as records in the office of the county recorder. See Iowa Code 614.29
 When court is held at a place that is not the county seat, all of the provisions of the Code relating to district courts are applicable, except as follows: All proceedings in the court have, within the territory over which the court has jurisdiction, the same force and effect as though ordered in the court at the county seat, but transcripts of judgments and decrees, levies of writs of attachment upon real estate, mechanics’ liens, lis pendens, sales of real estate, redemption, satisfaction of judgments and mechanics’ liens, and dismissals or decrees in lis pendens, together with all other matters affecting titles to real estate, shall be certified by the clerk‘s designee to the clerk of district court at the county seat who shall immediately enter them upon the records at the county seat.