The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XL
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY

Chapter 715
PROPERTY: GENERAL PROVISIONS

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F.S. 715.02

715.02 Prohibiting recovery from seller of forfeited deposit or down payment made by check, draft, or obligation refused through no fault of seller.—In any action by any person against the seller of real property for any share of a forfeited deposit or down payment by a prospective purchaser, no check, draft, or other obligation of such prospective purchaser shall be construed to be a deposit and the action shall not be maintained by any person against the seller by reason thereof, if payment of said check, draft, or obligation is refused through no fault of the seller, notwithstanding any recitation of a receipt of said deposit in any written agreement.

History.—s. 1, ch. 24304, 1947; s. 11, ch. 25035, 1949.

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Amendments to 715.02

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 715.02

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 715.02.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

In CHIPPENDALES USA, INC., 622 F.3d 1346 (Fed. Cir. 2010)

. . . See Oral Arg. at 38:13-38:43; TMEP § 715.02. . . . .

P. GODDARD, v. BABBITT, J., 536 F. Supp. 538 (D. Ariz. 1982)

. . . Census tracts 715.02, 715.03, 715.04 and 715.05. . . . 303.11, 303.12, 303.13, 405.-01, 405.02, 506, 507, 608, 609, 610.01, 610.02, 611, 612, 613, 614, 715.01, 715.02 . . .

C. B. JONES, W. H. v. HUGHES, C. B. JONES, W. H. v. LINDSEY BROS. a, 400 F.2d 585 (8th Cir. 1968)

. . . the same date, he was notified that his farm marketing excess was $3,505 and that the penalty was $715.02 . . .