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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title VIII
LIMITATIONS
Chapter 95
LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS; ADVERSE POSSESSION
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F.S. 95.231
95.231 Limitations where deed or will on record.
(1) Five years after the recording of an instrument required to be executed in accordance with s. 689.01; 5 years after the recording of a power of attorney accompanying and used for an instrument required to be executed in accordance with s. 689.01; or 5 years after the probate of a will purporting to convey real property, from which it appears that the person owning the property attempted to convey, affect, or devise it, the instrument, power of attorney, or will shall be held to have its purported effect to convey, affect, or devise, the title to the real property of the person signing the instrument, as if there had been no lack of seal or seals, witness or witnesses, defect in, failure of, or absence of acknowledgment or relinquishment of dower, in the absence of fraud, adverse possession, or pending litigation. The instrument is admissible in evidence. A power of attorney validated under this subsection shall be valid only for the purpose of effectuating the instrument with which it was recorded.
(2) After 20 years from the recording of a deed or the probate of a will purporting to convey real property, no person shall assert any claim to the property against the claimants under the deed or will or their successors in title.
(3) This law is cumulative to all laws on the subject matter.
History.ss. 1, 2, ch. 10171, 1925; CGL 4660, 4661; ss. 1-4, ch. 21790, 1943; s. 35, ch. 69-216; s. 17, ch. 74-382; s. 1, ch. 2013-234; s. 20, ch. 2019-71.
Note.Former ss. 95.23, 95.26.

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Amendments to 95.231


Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 95.231
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A. SACCULLO, L. A. A. v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,, 913 F.3d 1010 (11th Cir. 2019)

. . . Stat. § 95.231(1). . . . To answer that question, we look first to the text of § 95.231. . . . Stat. § 95.231(1). . . . Id. § 95.231(2). . . . Stat. § 95.231(1). . . .

PETTIS, v. CHRISENTERY, a R. J. L., 229 So. 3d 870 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2017)

. . . the reformation claim, concluding that it was barred by the 20-year statute of limitations in section 95.231 . . . Thus, Pettis’ reformation claim is not barred by section 95.231(2). See Moyer v. . . . The substance of section 95.23 was later transferred to section 95.231(2), Florida Statutes. . . .

SILVER SHELLS CORPORATION, v. ST. MAARTEN AT SILVER SHELLS CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., 169 So. 3d 197 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2015)

. . . It also does not implicate section 95.231(2) because that statute applies “only to correct technical . . .

N. HARDEY M. v. SHELL, 144 So. 3d 668 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2014)

. . . declaratory relief on the basis that it is barred by the statutes of limitations in sections 95.11 and 95.231 . . . Pursuant to the twenty[-]year restriction under Florida Statute 95.231[,] this cause of action is also . . . Moreover, the twenty-year limitation in section 95.231 does not bar the Hardeys’ count for declaratory . . . Section 95.231(2) “cannot validate conveyances made by persons who have no possessory interest in the . . . The trial court concluded that the Har-deys’ claim is barred by section 95.231 because the “the property . . .

DAVIS, v. HINSON, 67 So. 3d 1107 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2011)

. . . As authority for this proposition, the court cited section 95.231, Florida Statutes (2010). . . . Nor does section 95.231(2), Florida Statutes (2010), cure the deed’s defects. . . . Section 95.231(2) is a curative provision. . . . Here, it seems that section 95.231(2) could cure the deed’s failure to adequately describe the specific . . . To find otherwise would mean section 95.231(2) could validate titles in every case where property is . . .

PRICE, f k a f k a f k a v. W. MINGO, E., 994 So. 2d 1249 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2008)

. . . summary judgment on the ground that, as a matter of law, the present action is barred by sections 95.031, 95.231 . . .

PADRON WAREHOUSE CORP. a v. THE REALTY ASSOCIATES FUND III, L. P. III, a J., 377 F. Supp. 2d 1259 (S.D. Fla. 2005)

. . . . § 95.231 (quiet title), or a seven-year statute of limitations, see Fla. . . .

GLANVILLE, v. GLANVILLE,, 856 So. 2d 1045 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2003)

. . . The applicable limitations statute, section 95.231, Florida Statutes, provides as follows: (1) Five years . . . Fain, 145 So.2d 858 (Fla.1962), Appellee argues that section 95.231 does not apply to a "void” deed. . . .

INGLIS, v. FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, f k a F. D. I. C. f k a E. S. H. s, 797 So. 2d 26 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2001)

. . . for reformation of the deed was not barred by the 20-year statute of limitations set forth in section 95.231 . . . The version of section 95.231(2), Florida Statutes, in effect at the time of the recordation of the deed . . . claim to the property against the claimants under the deed or will or their successors in title. § 95.231 . . . See § 95.231(2), Fla. Stat. (2000). . . . appellee Colson’s claim here, are subject to the twenty-year limitation period set forth in section 95.231 . . .

MOORE v. SMITH- SNAGG, 793 So. 2d 1000 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2001)

. . . Cowart carefully analyzed the law and concluded that even the twenty year statute of limitation [section 95.231 . . .

BOWMAN v. B. DAVIES, III,, 586 So. 2d 1332 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1991)

. . . This latter ground was based upon section 95.231, Florida Statutes (1987). . . . Hattaway, 438 So.2d 456 (Fla. 5th DCA 1983) (section 95.231 is a curative statute not a traditional statute . . . 2d DCA 1961), cases which were decided in part based upon section 95.23, the predecessor to section 95.231 . . .

RIGBY, v. G. LILES, L. Co., 505 So. 2d 598 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1987)

. . . Section 95.231(2), Fla.Stat. (1985), on the other hand, provides that “after 20 years from the recording . . . Section 95.231 is not a traditional statute of limitation but rather a curative act with a limitation . . . Cases falling under § 95.231 include actions to quiet title and to establish resulting trusts, void deeds . . . truth as between them and the grantees to the deeds, subject to the twenty year limitation period in § 95.231 . . .

A. STEIGMAN, D. D. v. B. DANESE, L. B. III,, 502 So. 2d 463 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1987)

. . . Appellants take the position that the 20-year limitation period set forth in section 95.231(2), Florida . . . Coley is presently pending consideration by the Florida Supreme Court, Case No. 69,169. . s. 95.231(2 . . .

EARP SHRIVER, INC. v. C. EARP, 466 So. 2d 1225 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985)

. . . The final judgment recited that the corporation had waived reliance on section 95.231(1). . . . Section 95.231(1), Florida Statutes (1979), which first became effective January 1, 1975, reads as follows . . . Thus, the parties focus much of their attention on whether section 95.231(1) is a statute of limitations . . . The corporation admits that subsection (2) of section 95.231 which was carried forward from section 95.23 . . . One court has characterized section 95.231 as a curative act with a limitation provision. . . .

HOLLAND, v. J. M. HATTAWAY,, 438 So. 2d 456 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1983)

. . . I concur with Judge Cowart’s conclusions in this case: (1) section 95.231(2), Florida Statutes (1981) . . . This case involves a contest between two land titles and the effect of a curative act (§ 95.231(2), Fla.Stat . . . northerly 25 feet of Lot 2 because (1) appellants’ action was barred by the statute of limitations (§ 95.231 . . . Section 95.-231(2) must be read with section 95.231(1), of which it is a part, and when this is done . . . We hold that if a wild deed has defects in its form or execution, section 95.231(2), Florida Statutes . . . Curative acts with limitations provisions (such as section 95.231, previously considered) rectify specified . . .

O. RAY, O. v. J. ROTELLA,, 425 So. 2d 94 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1982)

. . . deeds of distribution may also benefit the record title as the basis for limitations (see §§ 95.22 and 95.231 . . .

YAWN v. C. BLACKWELL,, 343 So. 2d 906 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1977)

. . . claim was actually for the imposition of a constructive trust, which imposition is barred by Section 95.231 . . . , Florida Statutes (1975). “95.231 Limitations where deed or will on record.— “(2) After 20 years from . . .

PADGETT v. A. STEIN, Jr., 406 F. Supp. 287 (M.D. Pa. 1975)

. . . 95.229(a); Food services set forth in 37 Pa.Code § 95.230(a); Personal hygiene set forth in 37 Pa.Code § 95.231 . . .