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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XII
MUNICIPALITIES
Chapter 177
LAND BOUNDARIES
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F.S. 177.085
177.085 Platted streets; reversionary clauses.
(1) When any owner of land subdivides the land and dedicates streets, other roadways, alleys or similar strips on the map or plat, and the dedication contains a provision that the reversionary interest in the street, roadway, alley or other similar strip is reserved unto the dedicator or his or her heirs, successors, assigns, or legal representative, or similar language, and thereafter conveys abutting lots or tracts, the conveyance shall carry the reversionary interest in the abutting street to the centerline or other appropriate boundary, unless the owner clearly provides otherwise in the conveyance.
(2) As to all plats of subdivided lots heretofore recorded in the public records of each county, the holder of any interest in any reversionary rights in streets in such plats, other than the owners of abutting lots, shall have 1 year from July 1, 1972, to institute suit in a court of competent jurisdiction in this state to establish or enforce the right, and failure to institute the action within the time shall bar any right, title or interest, and all right of forfeiture or reversion shall thereupon cease and determine, and become unenforceable.
History.ss. 1, 2, ch. 72-257; s. 50, ch. 73-333; s. 936, ch. 95-147.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 177.085
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LEHMANN v. COCOANUT BAYOU ASSOCIATION, INC., 269 So. 3d 599 (Fla. App. Ct. 2019)

. . . See § 177.085, Fla. . . . See § 177.085, Fla. . . . See § 177.085. . . . None of the deeds passing title after that point otherwise exclude such a reversionary interest, see § 177.085 . . . that it sought to establish such a right after the 1983 vacation of Gulf Avenue pursuant to section 177.085 . . .

PELICAN CREEK HOMEOWNERS, LLC, H. A. L. J. v. T. PULVERENTI E., 243 So. 3d 467 (Fla. App. Ct. 2018)

. . . Additionally, section 177.085, Florida Statutes (2016), which codified the common law rule in 1972, provides . . . Further, dedicators had one year after the implementation of section 177.085 to expressly reserve title . . . There is also no record evidence that Pelican Developers asserted a claim after enactment of section 177.085 . . . relief because their interest in the disputed property is merely reversionary in accordance with section 177.085 . . . While section 177.085 refers to the interest of abutting property owners as reversionary, case law has . . .

WHISPELL FOREIGN CARS, INC. v. UNITED STATES,, 105 Fed. Cl. 596 (Fed. Cl. 2012)

. . . . § 177.085(1) (2011) (“When any owner of land subdivides the land and dedicates streets ... on the map . . .

UNITED STATES v. ACRES OF LAND IN COUNTY OF DADE, STATE OF FLORIDA, STERLING INVESTMENTS, INC. UNITED STATES v. ACRES OF LAND IN COUNTY OF DADE, STATE OF FLORIDA, STERLING INVESTMENTS, INC., 551 F.2d 678 (5th Cir. 1977)

. . . . § 177.085(2) to preserve its reversionary interest? . . . . § 177.085(2) constitutional? 6. . . .

UNITED STATES v. ACRES OF LAND IN COUNTY OF DADE, STATE OF FLORIDA, UNITED STATES v. ACRES OF LAND IN COUNTY OF DADE, STATE OF FLORIDA,, 537 F.2d 182 (5th Cir. 1976)

. . . . § 177.085(2) to preserve its reversionary interest? . . . . § 177.085(2) constitutional? 6. . . .