{"data":{"id":"us-ia/iowa-code-677.1","jurisdiction":"us-ia","citation":"Iowa Code § 677.1","heading":"Offer to confess before action brought.","body":"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.","path":["Title XV - JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES (Ch. 595 - 686D)","Chapter 677 - OFFER TO CONFESS JUDGMENT"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/677.1.pdf","current_through":"Iowa Code 2026 edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:40:17Z","sha256":"6a2ae32e95c703bee918d4d68874d8fc239ef9911955090b5ac140728b56092e","source_id":"us-ia","stale":false,"prev":"us-ia/iowa-code-676.4","next":"us-ia/iowa-code-677.2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}