The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XL
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY

Chapter 695
RECORD OF CONVEYANCES OF REAL ESTATE

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F.S. 695.02

695.02 Blank or master form of instruments may be recorded.—

(1) Any person may have a blank or master form of mortgage or other instrument conveying, transferring or reserving an interest in, or creating a lien on, real or personal property, filed, indexed and recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court.

(2) When any such blank or master form is filed with the clerk of the circuit court, she or he shall record and index the same in the manner provided by law for recording and indexing mortgages and such other instruments respectively, except that the name of the person whose name appears on such blank or master form shall be inserted in the indexes as grantor and also as grantee.

(3) When any instrument conveying, transferring or reserving an interest in, or creating a lien on, real or personal property, incorporates by reference the provisions, terms, covenants, conditions, obligations, powers and other contents, or any of them, set forth in any such recorded blank or master form, such incorporation by reference, for all purposes, shall be equivalent to setting forth in extenso in such instrument that which is incorporated by reference.

History.—ss. 1, 2, 3, 4, ch. 17109, 1935; CGL 1936 Supp. 5698(1); s. 219, ch. 77-104; s. 762, ch. 97-102.

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Amendments to 695.02

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 695.02

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

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 695.02.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

MLECKA, v. CITRUS COUNTY,, 610 So. 2d 677 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1992)

. . . lien by not indexing it in the Official Records of Citrus County as required by sections 28.222 and 695.02 . . . its special assessment lien in the Official Records of the county as required by sections 28.222 and 695.02 . . .

FLORIDA NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, a Co- v. W. HICKEY, a, 263 So. 2d 269 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1972)

. . . F.S.A., which in part provides: “In order to entitle any of the instruments named in §§ 695.01 and 695.02 . . .

E. B. EDENFIELD, v. J. D. WINGARD W. E., 89 So. 2d 776 (Fla. 1956)

. . . .-03, requires: “In order to entitle any of the instruments named in §§ 695.01, and 695.02 [mortgage] . . .

BALTIMORE STEAM- PACKET CO. v. PATTERSON, 106 F. 736 (4th Cir. 1901)

. . . the freight on the cotton and freight on hay, with which the reserved space was filled,— a loss of |695.02 . . .